How these sounds differ
θː
Voiceless Alveolar Fricative
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- alveolar
- Manner
- fricative
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
ʝ̟
Voiced Alveolar Fricative
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- alveolar
- Manner
- fricative
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 0 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
1
Languages with θː
0
Languages with both
0
Languages with ʝ̟
0 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.