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Linguistics & Pronunciation

Dzs is the eighth letter, and only trigraph, of the Hungarian alphabet. It is pronounced (using English pronunciation with letter romanization) "jay" in the alphabet, but just "j" when spoken in a word. Using the IPA phoneme, it can be written as /dʒ/. A trigraph (from the Greek words tria = three and grapho = write) is a group of three letters used to represent a single sound. ... 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 postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

Length

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

• menedzser, bridzs, bridzsel, maharadzsa, lodzsa, hodzsa, tádzsik, Tádzsikisztán

in other ones, short, e.g.

• tinédzser, fridzsider, Fudzsi

It's short without exception

• • next to another consonant: lándzsa, findzsa, nindzsa, bendzsó, halandzsa, halandzsázik, Kilimandzsáró
  • and at the beginning of the word: dzsóker, dzsungel, dzsem, dzsip, dzsida, dzsihád, dzsigg, dzsigoló, dzseki, dzsámi, dzsembori, dzsessz, dzsinn, dzsóker, dzsogging, dzsömper, dzsörzé, dzsunka, dzsúsz, dzsumbuj, dzsúdó, dzsúdzsucu (both are short), Dzsenifer, Dzsesszika, Dzsibuti, Dzsószer, Dzsingisz, Dzsungária, Dzsaváharlál, Dzsaipur

It is not usually doubled even when it is pronounced long, except when a word with this sound has an assimilated suffix: bridzs + dzsel: briddzsel (with the bridge game). Assimilation is a regular and frequent sound change process by which a phoneme changes to match an adjacent phoneme in a word. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill for four players, usually sitting around a table, who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ...

Usage

Usage of this letter is similar to dž in Slovak language. One has to remember that in Hungarian, even if three characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter, and even acronyms keep the letter intact. As one can see from the examples above and below, it is almost exclusively used in foreign loanwords, to imitate an English j sound. Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ...

Examples

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

• nindzsa = ninja
• dzsem = jam
• dzsip = jeep
• bendzsó = banjo
• dzsungel = jungle
• dzsihád = jihad