Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant

The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant 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. An alternative symbol used in some older and American linguistic literature is $\langlež\rangle$, a z with a háček. The sound occurs in many languages and, as in English and French, may have simultaneous lip rounding, although this is rarely indicated in transcription.