Hungarian dz

Dz is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, used in Polish, Kashubian, Macedonian, Slovak, and Hungarian to represent /d͡z/ (voiced alveolar affricate). In Dene Suline (Chipewyan) and Standard Cantonese Pinyin it represents /ts/.

[edit] In Polish

dz represents a voiced alveolar affricate (IPA: d͡z ). However, if followed by i, it becomes a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate (IPA: d͡ʑ ).

[edit] Examples of dz

dzwon (help·info) (bell)
rodzaj (help·info) (kind, type)
wódz (help·info) (leader, chief)

Compare dz followed by i:
dziecko (help·info) (child)
dziewczyna (help·info) (girl, girlfriend)

[edit] In Macedonian

The Macedonian digraph Dz, like in Polish and Hungarian represents a single phoneme. It is the Macedonian transliteration from the Cyrillic character "S" (not actually based on the Latin letter S). It is used as an extra grapheme: the only sound and letter in the Macedonian alphabet to not have an equivalent in the alphabets of Serbo-Croatian, which Macedonian adopted as part of its codification in the 1940s.

[edit] In Slovak

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[edit] In Hungarian

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Dz is the seventh letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It is pronounced (using English pronunciation with letter romanization) "dzay" in the alphabet, but just "dz" when spoken in a word. Using the IPA phoneme, it can be written as /dz/.

[edit] Length

In several words, it is pronounced long, e.g.

• bodza, madzag, edz, pedz

In some other ones, short, e.g.

• brindza, ódzkodik, dzadzíki, dzéta, Dzerzsinszkij

In several verbs ending in -dzik (approx. 50), it can be pronounced either short or long, e.g.

• csókolódzik, lopódzik, takaródzik

These are verbs where the dz can be replaced by z (and is replaced by some speakers): csókolózik, lopózik, takarózik.

In some of these verbs, there is no free variation: birkózik, mérkőzik (only with z) but leledzik, nyáladzik (only with dz, pronounced long). In some other verbs, there is a difference in meaning: levelez(ik) (correspond with sb.) but leveledzik (to leaf [like a tree]).

It is only doubled in writing when an assimilated suffix is added to the stem: eddze, lopóddzon.

[edit] Usage

Usage of this letter is similar to that of Polish and Slovak languages. In Hungarian, even if these two characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter, and even acronyms keep the letter intact.

[edit] Examples

These examples are Hungarian words that use the letter dz, with the English pronunciation with letter romanization following.

• bodza = elderberry
• edzés = (physical) training
• edző = coach
• nyáladzik = salivate

[edit] See also

• Polish orthography
• Slovak language
• Hungarian alphabet