ɟː vs c

Voiced Palato-Alveolar Stop vs Voiceless Palato-Alveolar Stop

How these sounds differ

ɟː

Voiced Palato-Alveolar Stop

Voicing: voiced
Place: palato-alveolar
Manner: stop
Class: consonant
In languages: 1 / 500

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Voiceless Palato-Alveolar Stop

Voicing: voiceless
Place: palato-alveolar
Manner: stop
Class: consonant
In languages: 62 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with ɟː

Languages with both

Languages with c

1 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.

Has c, not ɟː (20)

HAMER South Omotic ALLADIAN Atlantic-Congo AIZI Atlantic-Congo Gilyak Nivkh North Azerbaijani Turkic Komi-Zyrian Uralic Zuberoan Basque Basque Icelandic Indo-European Margi Afro-Asiatic Aymara Aymaran Cayapa Barbacoan Haida Haida Hupa Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit Kunjen Pama-Nyungan Cham Austronesian Yay Tai-Kadai Hakka Chinese Sino-Tibetan Yao Hmong-Mien Karen Sino-Tibetan Andamanese Great Andamanese