A voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are , . The tie bar may be omitted, yielding . There is also a ligature , which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Occasionally the stop component is transcribed . An older transcription that indicated approximately the same sound was .
is a broad transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as (retracted and palatalized ). There is also a para-IPA letter . Therefore, narrow transcriptions include and . However, this is not normally done because the stop component is by default assumed to be homorganic with the fricative component of the consonant.
is the sibilant equivalent of a voiced palatal affricate.
Features of a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate: