Dzze (Ꚉ ꚉ; italics: ''Ꚉ ꚉ'') is a letter of the old Abkhaz,

Ossetic Ossetian ( , , ), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete, is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Russian-Georgian border in the Greater Caucasus region. ...

and Komi alphabets. It represents the

voiced alveolo-palatal affricate The 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 , , and , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_z\ a ...

(d͡ʑ). In Ossetian, it was later replaced with digraph Dz (currently Дз). It is used to distinguish the

affricate An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pai ...

from the sequence d-z in some phonetic dictionaries.e.g. ''Орфоєпичний словник'' (''Орфоэпический словарь на украиском языке''), 1984. Н.И. Погребной, ed. Радяська Школа, Kiev.

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