Ż
Ż, ż is a letter, consisting of the letter Z of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and an overdot.Polish
Ż represents the voiced retroflex fricative, somewhat similar to the pronunciation of in "mirae". It usually corresponds to Ж or Ž in most other Slavic languages.
Its pronunciation is the same as the rz digraph, the only difference being that evolved in Polish from a palatalized. Ż represents common Slavic phoneme that originates from a palatalized or.
Ż occasionally devoices to the voiceless retroflex fricative, particularly in final position.
Ż should not be confused with , termed "soft zh", the voiced alveolopalatal fricative.Examples of ''ż''
Compare ź :
Occasionally, capital Ƶ is used instead of capital Ż for aesthetic purposes, especially in all-caps text and handwriting.Ż is used in Emilian-Romagnol to represent the voiced dental fricative , e.g. viażèr.Kashubian
ż is a voiced fricative like in Polish, but it is postalveolar rather than retroflex.In Maltese, ż represents the voiced alveolar sibilant, pronounced like "z" in English "maze".It is used in Tunisian Arabic transliteration for .
