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Linguistics & Pronunciation

Dz is a digraph, 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/. Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Roman alphabet. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... In linguistics, romanization (or Latinization, also spelled romanisation or Latinisation) is the representation of a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system. ... The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

Length

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

• bodza, madzag, edz, pedz

In some other ones, short, e.g.

• brindza, kamikadze, 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. Assimilation is a regular and frequent sound change process by which a phoneme changes to match an adjacent phoneme in a word. ...

Usage

Usage of this letter is similar than in Polish and Slovak languages. One has to remember that in Hungarian, even if two characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter, and even acronyms keep the letter intact. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ...

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