Voiced retroflex sibilant

The voiced retroflex sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is $\langle\rangle$, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z`.Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a zee (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).

Some scholars transcribe the laminal variant of this sound as, even though it is not palatalized. In such cases the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant is transcribed.