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===Voiced implosives=== The attested voiced implosive stops are the following: *[[voiced bilabial implosive]] {{IPA|[ɓ]}} *[[voiced alveolar implosive]] {{IPA|[ɗ]}} *[[voiced retroflex implosive]] {{IPA|[ᶑ]}} (letter is 'implicit' in the IPA) *[[voiced palatal implosive]] {{IPA|[ʄ]}} *[[voiced velar implosive]] {{IPA|[ɠ]}} *[[voiced uvular implosive]] {{IPA|[ʛ]}} *[[voiced labial–velar implosive]] {{IPA|[ɠ͜ɓ]}} There are no IPA symbols for implosive fricatives, and no confirmed cases of implosive fricatives or affricates. Implosive affricates are occasionally reported, but further investigation typically reveals that such sounds are either stops or not implosive. For example, the Swahili ''j'' has an implosive allophone, but the distinction is pulmonic affricate {{IPA|[dʒ]}} vs implosive stop {{IPA|[ʄ]}}.<ref name="Swahhili">Contini-Morava, Ellen. 1997. Swahili Phonology. In Kaye, Alan S. (ed.), Phonologies of Asia and Africa 2, 841–860. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.</ref> Similarly, implosive {{IPA|[ɗʒ]}} has been reported from [[Roglai language|Roglai]], but it has also been analyzed as {{IPA|[ʄ]}},<ref>Lee Ernest. 1966. Proto-Chamic phonologic word and vocabulary. PhD dissertation, Indiana University at Bloomington.</ref> and the implosive affricates reported from [[Gitxsan language|Gitxsan]] turn out to be [[lenis]] ejectives that are sometimes perceived as voiced.<ref>Gitxsan "does not have voiced implosive stops; rather, it has lax glottalized stops that display a creaky voice quality at the margin of the vowel in pretonic (and syllable-final) environments." — Bruce Rigsby & John Ingram (1990) "Obstruent Voicing and Glottalic Obstruents in Gitksan". ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 251–263.</ref>
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