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Ezh
Ezh ((unicode:Ʒ ʒ)) , also called the "tailed z", is a letter whose lower case form is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant. For example: ''vision'' . It is pronounced as the "s" in "treasure" or the "si" in the word "precision". (See also Ž, the Persian alphabet letter ژ and the Cyrillic ж.)
Ezh is also used as a letter in some orthographies of Skolt Sami, both by itself, and with a caron ((unicode:Ǯ ǯ)). These denote partially voiced alveolar and post-alveolar affricates, respectively, broadly represented /dz/ and /dʒ/. It also appears in the orthography of some African languages, for example in the Aja language of Benin and the Dagbani language of Ghana, where the uppercase variant looks like a reflected sigma (Σ).
==Origin==
As a phonetic symbol, ezh originates with Isaac Pitman's English Phonotypic Alphabet in 1847, as a ''z'' with an added hook. The symbol is based on medieval cursive forms of Latin z, evolving into the blackletter z letter. In Unicode, however, the blackletter ''z'' (“tailed z”, German ''geschwänztes Z'') is considered a glyph variant of ''z'', and not an ezh.
In contexts where "tailed z" is used in contrast to tail-less ''z'', notably in standard transcription of Middle High German, Unicode (unicode:ʒ) is sometimes used, strictly speaking incorrectly. Unicode offers (unicode:ȥ) "z with hook" as a grapheme for Middle High German coronal fricative instead.
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