A voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate, or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "j" sound in "jump".
This sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with , , , or in some broad transcriptions . There is also a ligature , which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Alternatives used in the Americanist tradition are , , and .
Features of a voiced postalveolar affricate: