palatal consonant

There is a series of palatal consonants, including both ejective and implosive.

The second was the progressive palatalization (see below), which produced new palatal consonants before back vowels.

This glide combined with a previous coronal consonant to produce new palatal consonants.

The palatal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

However that alphabet was ill-equipped to represent certain Polish sounds, such as the palatal consonants and nasal vowels.

The consonant system is more complicated, and its characteristic features are series of affricate and palatal consonants.

Before palatal consonants.

Because of this, most vowels occurred in pairs, labelled "soft" (after palatal consonants) and "hard" (elsewhere).

However, Alguerese Catalan neutralizes those palatal consonants in word-final position as well.

The phonological inventory of Gottscheerish differs from standard German in a number of ways, especially regarding palatal consonants.

The progressive palatalization also affected vowel fronting; it created palatal consonants before back vowels, which were then fronted.

Velar consonants alternate with palatal consonants before /e/ and sometimes before /a/.

In the official IPA chart, alveolo-palatals would appear between the retroflex and palatal consonants but for "lack of space".

Slovak, unlike Czech, uses palatal consonants more frequently (that is, is phonetically "softer"), but there are some exceptions.

There are also bilabial, velar and often palatal consonants, but a complete absence of uvular or glottal consonants.

The digraphs lh and nh, of Occitan origin, denote palatal consonants which do not exist in English.

Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

The palato-alveolar and alveolo-palatal subtypes are commonly counted as "palatals" in phonology, since they rarely contrast with true palatal consonants.

It is important to distinguish between true palatal consonants, palatalized consonants, and sequences of a consonant and a /j/.

The split is an allophonic variation, with the fronter realisation occurring near velar and palatal consonants, and the more central one occurring elsewhere.

(Palatal Consonants as Phonological Geminates in Brazilian Portuguese)

UPA also does not distinguish basic palatal consonants: these must be transcribed by either palatalized alveolar or palatalized velar symbols.

In particular, palatal consonants are acute but not coronal, while linguolabial consonants are coronal but not acute.

In Northern Paiwan the palatal consonants have been lost, though this is recent and a few conservative speakers maintain them as allophonic variants (not as distinct phonemes).

Palatalization of consonants followed by -y-, producing various affricates (still represented as a separate sound in Mycenaean) and palatal consonants; these later simplified, mostly losing their palatal character.