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What language does ž come from and how do you say it?The letter ž shows up in the Czech and Slovak languages. It is pronounced like the z in azure and the g in garage (in some varieties of English); it is the voiced counterpart of the sh in ship. In Czech, the little fillip on top of the z is called a háček, or little hook, ( link). Another name for it is caron. You could also transliterate it as zh as in Marshal Zhukov if you can't be bothered finding the keystrokes to produce ž. My first name, James, is pronounced /džejmz/ which backwards is zmježd. That answers my next question, but I have another. Are you a professor of linguistics?
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Zhukov
The letter in Zhukov's name is one of my favorite in the Cyrillic alpahbet: Ж.
if you can't be bothered finding the keystrokes to produce ž
A single keystroke (6, you press Shift-6 for the digit) if you have a Slovak keyboard installed.
Are you a professor of linguistics?
No. I used to be an adjunct professor of computer science for a while back before the Internet economic bubble burst. My degree in linguistics is an AB, but I have continued reading and studying the field since leaving the old alma mater. I work as a technical writer and programmer in the computer industry.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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ZhukovThe letter in Zhukov's name is one of my favorite in the Cyrillic alpahbet: Ж. Your favourite being? A single keystroke (6, you press Shift-6 for the digit) if you have a Slovak keyboard installed. Heh, heh. And if, like 99.999...% of the world, you don't? 
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I got it by copy and pasting out of the character map.
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Your favourite being?
It's a toss-up between щ /ʃtʃ/ and ы /ɨ/. The former occurs in most Slavic languages, but also in Genoese Italian, e.g., sccięppâ /ʃtʃř'pa/ 'to explode' and the latter is not to be confused with /ɯ/ (the dot-less Turkish ı).
99.999...%
An ex-colleague of mine is a Slovak, and his wife was trying to teach me a little Slovak. The Ethnologue database puts Slovak speakers at just over 5 million. Out of a total of 6 billion people that would be 6000 to 5 that would be less than 8/100th of a percent. Unless I've most likely got my math wrong.
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I got it by copy and pasting out of the character map.
That works, too.
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Your favourite being?
It's a toss-up between щ /ʃtʃ/ and ы /ɨ/. The former occurs in most Slavic languages, but also in Genoese Italian, e.g., sccięppâ /ʃtʃř'pa/ 'to explode' and the latter is not to be confused with /ɯ/ (the dot-less Turkish ı).
99.999...%
An ex-colleague of mine is a Slovak, and his wife was trying to teach me a little Slovak. The Ethnologue database puts Slovak speakers at just over 5 million. Out of a total of 6 billion people that would be 6000 to 5 that would be less than 8/100th of a percent. Unless I've most likely got my math wrong. So I was pretty close then  You have to take into account that not every Slovak has a computer and not every Slovak with a computer has a Slovak keyboard installed...
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not every Slovak has a computer and not every Slovak with a computer has a Slovak keyboard installedYes, as well as some non-Slovaks have a Slovak keyboard installed. There's at least one I know in one of your categories and one in mine. 
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