Voiced Alveolar Fricative - Voiced Alveolar Sibilant

Voiced Alveolar Sibilant

The voiced alveolar sibilant is common across European languages but is relatively uncommon cross-linguistically compared to the voiceless variant. Only about 28% of the world's languages contain a voiced dental or alveolar sibilant. Moreover, 85% of the languages with some form of are languages of Europe, Africa or Western Asia.

In the eastern half of Asia, the Pacific and the Americas, is very rare as a phoneme. The presence of in a given language always implies the presence of a voiceless .

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