Modifier Letter Small Dezh Digraph

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This raised IPA modifier follows the older dezh digraph ʤ, a single joined sign for a dezh affricate—a consonant that briefly stops airflow and releases it with friction. In detailed transcription, the modifier can mark that sound as weak or incompletely articulated. Use it only when the notation calls for that distinction; ordinary writing uses the language’s usual spelling.

The International Phonetic Association began as a practical pronunciation-teaching project and published its first alphabet in 1888. Earlier IPA charts included dezh among ligatures, single joined signs for affricates. At the 1989 Kiel convention, dezh and tesh were retired from official IPA use. A 2020 Unicode proposal cites later superscript dezh examples in speech-pathology transcription.