Palatal in a sentence

There are two palatal stops, voiced and unvoiced, as well as a palatal nasal and a palatal lateral (the palatal stops are not present in all dialects).

It was therefore a form of consonant–vowel harmony in which the property 'palatal' or 'non-palatal' applied to an entire syllable at once rather than to each sound individually.

The former digraph ny is now written ɲ when it designates a palatal nasal glide; the ny spelling is kept for the combination of a nasal vowel with a subsequent oral palatal glide.

This rule remained in place for a long time, and ensured that a syllable containing a front vowel always began with a palatal consonant, and a syllable containing j was always preceded by a palatal consonant and followed by a front vowel.

Thus dorsal–palatal, dorsal–velar, and dorsal–uvular are usually just called "palatal", "velar", and "uvular".

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

Crocodiles have a palatal flap, a rigid tissue at the back of the mouth that blocks the entry of water.

Diphthongization compensates for the loss of the palatal stop (part of Catalan's segment loss compensation).

For example, the Spanish word ayuda ('help') features a palatal approximant that is pronounced as a fricative in emphatic speech.

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

However, the palatal and alveolar clicks frequently have the opposite names in older literature, and they were not distinguished in the IPA until 1989.

If there is ambiguity, additional terms have been invented, so subapical–palatal is more commonly called "retroflex".

In most languages, the retroflex and palatal releases are "abrupt"; that is, they are sharp popping sounds with little frication (turbulent airflow).

In Spanish and several other world languages influenced by it, the grapheme ñ represents a palatal nasal consonant.

Meanwhile, in the speech of most other Spanish-speakers, it is merged with /ʝ/ ("curly-tail j"), a non-lateral, usually voiced, usually fricative, palatal consonant, sometimes compared to English /j/ (yod) as in yacht and spelled y in Spanish.

Others citation citation as "back alveolo-palatal", implying that the characters would be more accurate.

Phonologically it is distinguished from Sinhalese by the higher frequency of palatal sounds C and J. The effect is also heightened by the addition of inanimate suffixes.

Proto-Tai also had a glottalized palatal sound, reconstructed as /ʔj/ in Li Fang-Kuei (1977).

Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds.

Some Indigenous Australian languages contrast dental, alveolar, retroflex, and palatal laterals, and many Native American languages have lateral fricatives and affricates as well.