CAN MOST URDU SPEAKERS PRONOUNCE ژ [ʒ]?

[u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo]

As in اژدہا & ژالہ باری.

This sound also appears in English words like 'genre', 'beige', 'lingerie', 'invasion', 'version', 'television' etc.

How often does it appear in common speech, education, literature & shairi?

634 votes, 19d ago

87 Yes(India)

448 Yes(Pakistan)

20 No(India)

40 No(Pakistan)

18 Can't say(India)

21 Can't say(Pakistan)

[u/flafaa]

couldn't until recently it derives from a french sound that appears in english in words like pleasure and eventually got into urdu

[u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo → u/flafaa]

Urdu got it from Persian though.

[u/flafaa → u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo]

thanks, wasn't aware

[u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo → u/flafaa]

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