ɲc vs ɟ

Voiceless Palato-Alveolar Stop vs Voiced Palato-Alveolar Stop

How these sounds differ

ɲc

Voiceless Palato-Alveolar Stop

Voicing: voiceless
Place: palato-alveolar
Manner: stop
Class: consonant
In languages: 2 / 500

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Voiced Palato-Alveolar Stop

Voicing: voiced
Place: palato-alveolar
Manner: stop
Class: consonant
In languages: 54 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with ɲc

Languages with both

Languages with ɟ

2 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 ɟ, not ɲc (20)

MUINANE Boran BETE Kru Andamanese Great Andamanese Andoke Language isolate HAMER South Omotic ALLADIAN Atlantic-Congo AIZI Atlantic-Congo KOTOKO Afro-Asiatic Gilyak Nivkh North Azerbaijani Turkic Komi-Zyrian Uralic Zuberoan Basque Basque Kadugli (Miri) Kadugli-Krongo Margi Afro-Asiatic Angas Afro-Asiatic Cayapa Barbacoan Kharia Austroasiatic Yao Hmong-Mien Kwakiutl Wakashan DANGALEAT Afro-Asiatic