Hungarian dzs
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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 '''/{{IPA.Length
In several words, it is pronounced long, e.g.- menedzser, bridzs, bridzsel, maharadzsa, lodzsa, hodzsa, tádzsik, Tádzsikisztán
- tinédzser, fridzsider, büdzsé, Fudzsi
- 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, dzsuva, dzsúsz, dzsumbuj, dzsúdó, dzsúdzsucu (both are short), Dzsenifer, Dzsesszika, Dzsibuti, Dzsószer, Dzsingisz, Dzsungária, Dzsaváharlál, Dzsaipur
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.Examples
The following are Hungarian loanwords (mostly taken from English) using the trigraph dzs:
- nindzsa = ninja
- dzsem = jam
- dzsip = jeep
- bendzsó = banjo
- dzsungel = jungle
- dzsessz = jazz
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