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Palatalization
Selasa, 2021-06-15 22:20:10

Look up palatalization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Palatalization may refer to: Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary...

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Palatalization (phonetics)
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 13:33:18

American English. Stops are palatalized before the front vowel /i/ and not palatalized in other cases. In some languages, palatalization is a distinctive feature...

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Labio-palatalization
Kamis, 2026-07-30 02:30:47

A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously labialized and palatalized. Typically the roundedness is compressed, like [y], rather than protruded...

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Palatalization sign
Sabtu, 2025-08-30 18:56:39

Slavonic to indicate the palatalization of the base consonant. An example of use is in the word избавитєл҄ь ('redeemer', palatalized л [lʲ]). Unicode Consortium...

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Palatalization (sound change)
Senin, 2026-07-27 04:42:19

and /z/ are palatalized both before front vowels and /j/, while velars are only palatalized before front vowels. In Ciluba, /j/ palatalizes only a preceding...

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Slavic palatalization
Selasa, 2025-11-11 22:42:20

Slavic palatalization may refer to: Slavic first palatalization, the first palatalization affecting the Slavic languages Slavic second palatalization, the...

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Postalveolar consonant
Rabu, 2026-07-22 09:55:51

palato-alveolar (such as [ʃ ʒ], weakly palatalized; also alveopalatal), alveolo-palatal (such as [ɕ ʑ], strongly palatalized), and retroflex (such as [ʂ ʐ],...

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Basque language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:48:12

words containing one or more sibilant, those sibilants are palatalized to form the palatalized form. That is, s and z become x, and ts and tz become tx...

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Slavic first palatalization
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 08:12:06

unpalatalized before *j by the time they palatalized before *e and *i. That being said, the first palatalization must have proceeded gradually: *k > *kj...

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Ukrainian phonology
Jumat, 2026-07-31 10:25:49

palatalized if they are followed by other palatalized dental consonants /nʲ, tʲ, dʲ, t͡sʲ, d͡zʲ, sʲ, zʲ, rʲ, lʲ/. They are also typically palatalized...

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Palatal consonant
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:59:07

Sometimes palatalized alveolars or dentals can be analyzed in this manner as well. Palatal consonants can be distinguished from apical palatalized consonants...

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Semisoft sign
Senin, 2026-03-16 04:32:04

the Kildin Sami language, where it indicates palatalization (sometimes also called "half-palatalization") of the preceding stop, /nʲ/, /tʲ/, or /dʲ/....

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Glottal stop
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:34:45

secondary articulation (approximant-like release). It has been noted that palatalized and labialized glottal stops, respectively /ʔʲ/ and /ʔʷ/, are quite similar...

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Voiceless alveolar fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:36:42

Sibilants may be articulated with various tongue shapes and degrees of palatalization, depending on their place of articulation. There are at least three...

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Russian phonology
Jumat, 2026-07-31 01:06:02

(non-palatalized) consonants (e.g. жить [ʐɨtʲ] 'to live', шип [ʂɨp] 'thorn, spine', цирк [t͡sɨrk] 'circus', etc.) and [i] after soft (palatalized) consonants...

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Palatalization in the Romance languages
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 17:52:39

coalesced into palatalized labial consonants [mʲ pʲ bʲ vʲ]. Spellings such as ⟨mh vh bh⟩ may attest to the original development of palatalized consonants...

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Palatal hook
Selasa, 2026-07-21 00:45:40

vice versa ɼ [used for Czech, does not occur palatalized] ɺ ɧ [used for Swedish, does not occur palatalized] the sibilant affricates ʦ̡ (𝼸) 𝼗 𝼒. (The...

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Voiced dental and alveolar trills
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:34:07

рьяный/ŕjaný [ˈr̪ʲjän̪ɨ̞j] 'zealous' Apical, palatalized. Usually only a single vibration, presumably due to the palatalization. It contrasts with a post-alveolar...

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Russian alphabet
Rabu, 2026-06-24 01:01:37

sometimes used again since 1758. Most consonants can represent both "soft" (palatalized, represented in the IPA with a ⟨ʲ⟩) and "hard" consonant phonemes. If...

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Voiceless palatal plosive
Minggu, 2026-08-16 02:13:22

voiceless alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed ⟨t̠ʲ⟩ (retracted and palatalized [t]) or ⟨c̟⟩ (advanced [c], depending on the linguistic analysis of that...

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Voiced palatal plosive
Selasa, 2026-08-11 20:12:40

voiced alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed ⟨d̠ʲ⟩ (retracted and palatalized [d]) or ⟨ɟ᫈⟩ (advanced [ɟ]), depending on the linguistic analysis of...

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Soft sign
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:48:57

consonant before it is palatalized. For example, in Russian, the soft sign is often used after consonants to indicate palatalization. It affects the pronunciation...

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Japanese phonology
Senin, 2026-08-10 12:19:46

phoneme. Most consonants possess phonetically palatalized counterparts. Pairs of palatalized and non-palatalized consonants contrast before the back vowels...

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Polish phonology
Jumat, 2026-07-17 02:48:08

The historical palatalized forms of some consonants have developed in Polish into noticeably different sounds: historical palatalized t, d, r have become...

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Alveolo-palatal consonant
Kamis, 2026-07-30 22:56:16

(retracted and palatalized alveolars) or ⟨c̟ ɟ᫈ ɲ᫈ ʎ̟⟩ (advanced palatals). For example, the Polish nasal represented with the letter ń is a palatalized laminal...

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Hachijō language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 14:05:54

changes can also be analyzed phonemically using separate sets of palatalized and non-palatalized consonants. However, from a morphological and cross-dialectal...

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Phonological history of Old English
Jumat, 2026-07-10 23:57:26

palatalization, there is no clear explanation for why [x] was still velar after front vowels, when the other velar consonants had become palatalized in...

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List of consonants
Jumat, 2026-07-10 22:36:54

fricative [ʃ] (ship) voiced palatalized postalveolar fricative [ʑ] voiceless palatalized postalveolar fricative [ɕ] voiced palatalized postalveolar affricate...

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Lithuanian declension
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 19:57:32

"palatalized", which means that the last consonant of the stem before the inflection is always palatalized. Note that in this case the palatalization mark...

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El (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 03:49:47

alveolar lateral approximant /l/. In Slavic languages it may be either palatalized or slightly velarized; see below. The Cyrillic letter El was derived...

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Micronesian languages
Selasa, 2025-12-02 02:20:20

for their lack of plain labial consonant and have instead two series, palatalized and labio-velarized labials, similar to the related New Caledonian languages...

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Veps language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 16:59:02

pörüdä, södä). In general, palatalizable consonants are palatalized allophonically before a front vowel. However, palatalized consonants also occur in other...

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Velarization
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:00:47

systematically contrast with palatalized consonants. Similarly, Russian has velarized consonants as allophones of the non-palatalized (plain) series, especially...

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Slavic second palatalization
Minggu, 2025-12-21 05:52:15

to others, however, “these seemingly unchanged velars were actually palatalized dentals in both the ancient artifacts and in the modern varieties (so...

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Moksha language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:42:46

phonemically non-palatalized ("hard") consonants. /e/ does not occur after non-palatalized consonants, only after their palatalized ("soft") counterparts...

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Erzya language
Kamis, 2026-06-11 16:38:02

are actually due to the palatalized consonants /zʲ/ and /rʲ/. One exception to front-vowel harmony is observed in palatalized non-final /lʲ/, e.g. асфальтсо...

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Sibilant
Jumat, 2026-07-17 03:02:55

languages have four types when palatalization is considered. Polish is one example, with both palatalized and non-palatalized laminal denti-alveolars, laminal...

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Lithuanian phonology
Senin, 2026-08-03 05:11:15

Lithuanian consonants except /j/ have two variants: a non-palatalized one and a palatalized one (traditionally called 'hard' and 'soft', respectively)...

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Old English phonology
Selasa, 2026-07-14 10:19:02

have shared palatalization as a sound change, including Northumbrian. Forms in Modern English with hard /k/ and /ɡ/ in which a palatalized sound would...

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Caron
Selasa, 2026-07-07 15:35:34

are not palatalized but postalveolar consonants. For example, Estonian Nissi (palatalized) is distinct from nišši (postalveolar). Palatalization is typically...

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Bulgarian phonology
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 02:57:53

thought assumes palatalization as a phonemic distinction in Contemporary Standard Bulgarian and consequently states that it has 17 palatalized phonemes, rounding...

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Voiced dental and alveolar nasals
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:27:26

Belarusian новы/novy [ˈn̪ovɨ] 'new' Laminal denti-alveolar. Contrasts with palatalized form. See Belarusian phonology Bulgarian жена/žena [ʒɛˈn̪a] 'woman' Laminal...

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Julius Caesar
Jumat, 2026-08-07 07:12:09

vowel [ɛː]. Then, the plosive /k/ before front vowels began, due to palatalization, to be pronounced as an affricate, hence renderings like [ˈtʃɛːzar]...

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History of Proto-Slavic
Jumat, 2026-07-10 08:25:37

consonants developing palatalized allophones in syllables containing front vowels, resulting in the first regressive palatalization. It also led to the...

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Lemko dialect
Rabu, 2026-06-17 02:50:21

are not palatalized in word-final positions (кін [kʲin], вес [ʋɛs], opposed to literary Ukrainian - кінь [kʲinʲ], весь [ʋɛsʲ]), and palatalized [r] is...

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Zenzontepec Chatino
Jumat, 2026-01-02 09:18:52

Dental Alveolar Palato-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal plain palatalized plain palatalized labialized Stop p t /t̪/ ty /tʲ/ k ky /kʲ/ kw /kʷ/ ʔ Affricate...

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Voiceless palatal lateral fricative
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 17:09:26

series of palatal lateral affricates. In Bura, it is the realization of palatalized /ɬʲ/ and contrasts with [ʎ]. The extensions to the IPA transcribes this...

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Phonological history of French
Senin, 2026-08-10 02:25:09

instead to /ai̯/ when not preceded by a palatalized consonant: manum, amat > OF main, aime After a palatalized consonant (including the affricates [tʃ...

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Ć
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:32:46

Łacinka and in unofficial Ukrainian Latynka where it represents the palatalized alveolar affricate [t͡sʲ]. In Ladin it represents [tʃ] when preceded...

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Ż
Rabu, 2026-07-29 10:30:42

historical pronunciations: ż originates from a palatalized /ɡ/ or /z/, while ⟨rz⟩ evolved from a palatalized ⟨r⟩. The letter was originally introduced in...

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Polish orthography
Senin, 2026-07-13 15:06:16

next section. According to one system, similar principles apply to the palatalized consonants /kʲ/, /ɡʲ/ and /xʲ/, except that these can only occur before...

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International Phonetic Alphabet
Minggu, 2026-08-16 17:32:08

seen with languages such as Twi where consonants may be simultaneously palatalized and labialized, while ⟨ˀ⟩ may be used for glottalized sounds without...

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Proto-Romance language
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 16:24:55

There is scholarly disagreement over whether palatalization was phonemic in Proto-Romance. Palatalized consonants tended to geminate between vowels....

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Ukrainian alphabet
Selasa, 2026-06-30 17:00:48

indicates that the preceding consonant is soft (palatalized). Also, alveolar consonants are palatalized when followed by certain vowels: д, з, л, н, р...

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Kildin Sámi
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:02:51

dialects preaspiration is realized as a preceding [ç] for palatalized phonemes and [x] for non-palatalized phonemes. e.g. пāһк (transl. mountain hill) /paːʰk/...

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Cyrillic phonetic alphabets
Kamis, 2026-05-28 20:12:37

parts of the letter together. Common diacritics [сꚝ] or [сʼ] palatalized [с·] not palatalized [с°] labialized [с̣] retroflex [т̪] laminal [т̯] apical (same...

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Mongolian language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 13:04:16

clusters, the following restrictions obtain: a palatalized consonant can be preceded only by another palatalized consonant or sometimes by /ɢ/ and /ʃ/ /ŋ/...

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Tocharian languages
Selasa, 2026-07-28 15:41:38

as in indicative class VII) with suffix ñ < PIE -n- (palatalized by thematic e, with palatalized variant generalized). Varying subjunctives: i: Athematic...

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History of French
Rabu, 2026-05-13 14:14:38

combined with the preceding consonant to form a palatalized consonant. All consonants could be palatalized in that fashion. The resulting consonants developed...

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Indo-European languages
Jumat, 2026-08-14 21:29:20

plain velars, often with secondary palatalization before a front vowel (e i ē ī). The palatal stops are palatalized and often appear as sibilants, usually...

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Gwari language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 18:09:13

ɡʷ, mʷ, k͡pʷ, ɡ͡bʷ, hʷ/ and palatalized as /pʲ, bʲ, fʲ, vʲ, kʲ, ɡʲ, mʲ, lʲ, wʲ/. Sounds /t, d, s, z, n/ when palatalized are always heard as [tʃ, dʒ,...

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Skolt Sámi
Selasa, 2026-08-11 06:21:18

pronounced as slightly more fronted in palatalized syllables than in non-palatalized ones. When the palatalizing suprasegmental is present, the following...

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Shapsug dialect
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:01:47

Natukhai dialects there is a palatalized voiced velar stop [ɡʲ] ⟨гь⟩, a palatalized voiceless velar stop [kʲ] ⟨кь⟩ and a palatalized velar ejective [kʲʼ] ⟨кӀь⟩...

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Proto-Tocharian language
Senin, 2026-08-10 05:43:37

simplification of *ns to s palatalized the preceding vowel. The cluster ñc also palatalized the preceding vowel. These vowel palatalizations are as follows: *a...

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Romanian phonology
Jumat, 2026-08-14 02:29:22

the consonants in this table, a few consonants can have allophones: Palatalized consonants occur when preceding an underlying word-final /i/, which is...

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Voiced postalveolar fricative
Senin, 2026-08-03 03:27:08

this sound is palato-alveolar (somewhat palatalized post-alveolar) or alveolo-palatal (strongly palatalized post-alveolar). Dubisz, Karaś & Kolis (1995:62)...

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Okinawan scripts
Jumat, 2025-12-05 18:51:11

Okinawan is a Japonic language spoken on Okinawa Island. Okinawan-language documents of the Ryukyu Kingdom were written in kanji and hiragana, derived...

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Old Tibetan
Senin, 2026-07-20 01:08:00

series. Most consonants could be palatalized, and the palatal series from the Tibetan script represents palatalized coronals. The sound conventionally...

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Ka (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:30:54

plosive /k/ or the palatalized one /kʲ/; for example, the word "короткий" ("short") contains both the kinds: [kɐˈrotkʲɪj]. The palatalized variant is pronounced...

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H
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:23:59

pech, which is pronounced [pɛxː]); in certain environments it breaks palatalization of a consonant, as in the name Beöthy, which is pronounced [bøːti] (without...

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Iñupiaq language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 07:28:11

vowel is palatalized, it will become an /s/. The strong i affects the entire consonant cluster, palatalizing all consonants that can be palatalized within...

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Proto-Finnic language
Kamis, 2026-07-30 18:13:51

palatalization, where a diphthong ending in *-i and the long vowel *ii causes palatalization of a following consonant. In Livonian, the palatalized *ś...

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Voiced dental and alveolar lateral approximants
Selasa, 2026-08-11 16:53:07

'the deer' Palatalized laminal; allophone of /l/ before /ʃ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/. See Italian phonology Turkish lale [ʎ̟äːˈʎ̟ɛ] 'tulip' Palatalized; contrasts with...

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Páez language
Selasa, 2026-07-07 04:35:21

Consonants Bilabial Alveolar Velar plain palatalized plain palatalized plain palatalized Plosive plain p pʲ t tʲ k kʲ aspirated pʰ pʲʰ tʰ tʲʰ kʰ kʲʰ prenasalized...

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Gimel
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:23:48

a [ɡ], Arabic is considered unique among them where the Jīm ⟨ج⟩ was palatalized to an affricate [d͡ʒ] or a fricative [ʒ] in most dialects from classical...

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En (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:28:47

consonant /n/, like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "neat", and it can be palatalized /nʲ/ like in the pair of hard and soft consonants for the word: жена́...

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Twi-Fante language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 22:27:18

extensive palatalization, vowel harmony, and tone terracing. Before front vowels, all Asante consonants are palatalized (or labio-palatalized), and the...

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List of Cyrillic multigraphs
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:08:28

The following multigraphs are used in the Cyrillic script. The palatalized consonants of Russian and other languages written as C-⟨ь⟩ are mostly predictable...

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Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-11 16:55:28

component, which can be narrowly transcribed as ⟨d̠ʲ⟩ (retracted and palatalized [d]). There is also a para-IPA letter ⟨ȡ⟩. Therefore, narrow transcriptions...

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E with diaeresis (Cyrillic)
Minggu, 2026-03-15 17:32:11

the close-mid front unrounded vowel /e/, following a palatalized (sometimes called "half-palatalized") stop, /nʲ, tʲ, dʲ/. In Moksha, it was used for the...

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Alaskan Russian
Selasa, 2026-05-26 15:00:33

Russian orthography). As in standard Russian, most consonants also have a palatalized (or 'soft') form, which is marked by an apostrophe, as in ⟨nʹ⟩. Words...

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Ye (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:19:36

and ⟨р⟩) are also not palatalized, see E (Cyrillic). The letter ⟨е⟩ also represents /jo/ (as in "yogurt") and /o/ after palatalized consonants, ⟨ж⟩, and...

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Ś
Kamis, 2026-08-13 08:59:32

certain other languages or romanizations. Slavic languages – usually the palatalized form of /s/ Polish language – [ɕ] (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)...

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Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:34:59

component, which can be narrowly transcribed as ⟨t̠ʲ⟩ (retracted and palatalized [t]). There is also a para-IPA letter ⟨ȶ⟩. Therefore, narrow transcriptions...

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Nenets languages
Senin, 2026-06-29 03:37:00

velar consonants *k and *ŋ were additionally shifted to *sʲ and *nʲ when palatalized. Similar changes have also occurred in the other Samoyedic languages...

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Uvular consonant
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 09:38:55

Two variants can then be established. Since palatalized consonants are [−back], the appearance of palatalized uvulars in a few languages such as Ubykh is...

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Podlachian language
Selasa, 2026-05-26 07:06:29

lateral consonant and the symbol l for its palatalized companion. Although the symbol l represents a palatalized consonant, Jan Maksymiuk adopted the orthographic...

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Voiceless velar plosive
Minggu, 2026-07-19 01:02:30

A voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "k" sound...

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Centum and satem languages
Senin, 2026-08-03 22:08:19

the second palatalization, whereby all the remaining velars (*k and *g) were palatalized to q and gj, in the same environment. PIE palatalized velars are...

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Tatar language
Senin, 2026-07-27 12:49:10

Russian where palatalized consonants are not allophones but phonemes on their own. There are a number of Russian loanwords which have palatalized consonants...

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Polish alphabet
Jumat, 2026-08-07 16:22:52

between palatal or palatalized consonants Ó ó ó, o z kreską, o kreskowane or u zamknięte /u/ boot [ʉ] between palatal or palatalized consonants P p pe...

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Iotation
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:24:24

also induce iotation; in addition, Ь palatalizes preceding consonant, allowing combinations of both palatalized (soft) and plain (hard) consonants with...

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Yer
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:09:45

do not use it at all, but it still leaves traces in the forms of the palatalized letters њ and љ. In Bulgarian, it is debated whether the letter palatalises...

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Slobozhan dialect
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 07:30:19

Consonants before [i]<[o],[e],[ě] may be palatalized or non-palatalized. Word-final phonemes [t͡s], [t], [r] are palatalized, but labial consonants [p], [b],...

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Kabardian language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:57:51

Turkish Kabardians (Uzunyayla) and Besleneys have a palatalized voiced velar stop [ɡʲ] and a palatalized velar ejective [kʲʼ] which corresponds to [d͡ʒ] and...

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Malayalam phonology
Senin, 2026-07-06 07:35:03

stick, marble", eṟi "throw", ēṟi "lots" Vowels tend to be fronted around palatalized consonants and backed around velarized consonants. Some speakers also...

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Proto-Slavic language
Senin, 2026-08-03 09:41:56

left this palatalization as a "residue", which then became distinctive, producing a phonemic distinction between palatalized and non-palatalized alveolars...

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Slavic languages
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:30:11

produced a large number of new palatalized (or "soft") sounds, which formed pairs with the corresponding non-palatalized (or "hard") consonants and absorbed...

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Ter Sámi
Selasa, 2026-06-23 03:55:17

consonants except for /j/ may be palatalized [ʲ]. Consonants /t, d/ can also sound as half-palatalized. After palatalized consonants, /ɛ/ is realized as...

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Voiced bilabial nasal
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:54:23

Bennett, Ryan; McGuire, Grant; Ní Chiosáin, Máire (2024). "Russian Palatalization Is a Matter of the Tongue Body". Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 32 (FASL...

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History of the Russian language
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 19:16:22

the later palatalized consonants that developed in Russian) developed as follows: The palatal resonants *ľ *ň *ř merged with the new palatalized consonants...

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Voicelessness
Minggu, 2026-06-14 06:49:17

with /l̥/ and /r̥/ (written as ⟨лх⟩ lh and ⟨рх⟩ rh). The last two have palatalized counterparts /l̥ʲ/ and /r̥ʲ/ (⟨льх⟩ and ⟨рьх⟩). Kildin Sami has also...

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Voiceless postalveolar affricate
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:34:26

and Romance languages), or a voiceless alveolar stop /t/ by way of palatalization, especially next to a front vowel (as in English nature; also in Amharic...

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History of the Slavic languages
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 17:00:22

In Bulgarian, distinctively palatalized consonants are found only before /a o u/. Velars are allophonically palatalized before front vowels in standard...

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Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 16:59:19

dorsum) is raised toward the front of the hard palate. It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the...

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Oghuric languages
Senin, 2026-08-03 13:39:28

operates before i, ï, and iV, and Dybo calls the sound change the "Bulgar palatalization". *č → ś k/q → ğ y → j, ś d, δ → δ > z (10th cent.) > r (13th cent.)...

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Assibilation
Kamis, 2026-04-23 08:05:07

then gave /sj/ (like attention modern /a.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/)., which was further palatalized in the English derived words to /ʃ/ (like attention /əˈtɛn.ʃən/). Most...

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Tje
Kamis, 2026-06-25 02:52:41

Eastern Khanty and Northern Khanty since 2013, where it represents the palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive /tʲ/, like the pronunciation of the t in "tube"...

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Yo (kana)
Kamis, 2025-10-09 21:44:05

[jo]. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon). In mathematics...

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Komi Zje
Selasa, 2026-06-16 01:40:13

writing of the Komi language. The pronunciation of the letter is [zʲ] (palatalized voiced alveolar sibilant). "Archaic Komi Cyrillic characters for the...

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Besleney
Rabu, 2026-06-17 09:37:46

sub-dialect, there exist a palatalized voiced velar plosive [ɡʲ], a palatalized voiceless velar plosive [kʲ] and a palatalized velar ejective [kʲʼ], which...

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Besleney dialect
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:02:57

Besleney did not undergo "Phase 2" (Velar Palatalization). It retains the distinct Proto-Kabardian series of palatalized velars: the voiced stop [ɡʲ] ⟨гь⟩, the...

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Ze (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:27:53

early grammars tried to give a phonetic distinction to these forms (like palatalized vs. nonpalatalized sound), but the system had no further development...

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Belarusian alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 23:29:15

and /sʲ/, both written with the letter ⟨с⟩: When a consonant is not palatalized and precedes /j/, the apostrophe ⟨'⟩ is used to separate the iotated...

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Chaha language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 05:17:56

consonants to be palatalized. For example, the second-person feminine singular form of verbs in the imperfective and jussive/imperative palatalizes one of the...

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Western Polesian dialect of Ukrainian
Minggu, 2026-05-03 07:27:52

merger of unstressed [o] and [u] (гуолýбка, куожýх). presence of both palatalized and unpalatalized consonants in combinations ги, ки, хи/гі, кі, хі. frequent...

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Pyongan dialect
Kamis, 2026-04-09 22:52:02

consonant, in addition to the first syllable of ㄱ (g) and ㅎ (h) are not palatalized in the Pyongan dialect (e.g. 뎡거댱, 정거장: chyŏnggŏjyang, chŏgŏjang). Sino-Korean...

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C
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 12:39:08

of the Old English period, /k/ before front vowels (/e/ and /i/) was palatalized, having changed by the tenth century to [tʃ], though ⟨c⟩ was still used...

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Serbo-Croatian phonology
Selasa, 2026-07-14 02:24:44

most other Slavic languages such as Russian, there is no palatalized versus non-palatalized (hard–soft) contrast for most consonants. /m/ is labiodental...

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Front vowel
Kamis, 2026-02-19 23:14:44

start as allophonic variation, but may become phonemic. This historical palatalization is reflected in the orthographies of several European languages, including...

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Velar consonant
Kamis, 2026-07-30 01:47:04

the coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest is that historical *k was palatalized. When such sounds remained stops, they were transcribed ⟨kʸ⟩ in Americanist...

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Dakuten and handakuten
Jumat, 2026-07-31 18:06:16

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Bulgarian language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 15:39:35

transcription does not assume the existence of palatalized consonants. An alternative postulates the following palatalized consonants /pʲ, bʲ, tʲ, dʲ, kʲ, gʲ, ʦʲ...

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Yo (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 03:10:29

syllable generally became /o/ after a palatalized consonant, unless the vowel was followed by a second palatalized consonant. For example, compare ёж [jɵʂ]...

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Karelian language
Rabu, 2026-06-24 04:06:34

only the triphthongs ieu, iey, iäy, uau, uou and yöy. There are 20 non-palatalized consonants in Karelian with their own single grapheme, and 2 are represented...

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En with middle hook
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 03:18:27

used in the alphabet of the Chuvash language, where it represented the palatalized alveolar nasal /nʲ/. Н н : Cyrillic letter En Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft...

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Consonant mutation
Senin, 2026-07-06 00:29:01

the alternation was morphologized. In Old English, velar stops were palatalized in certain cases but not others. That resulted in some alternations,...

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Alveolar consonant
Rabu, 2026-08-12 16:04:48

same symbol is used for all coronal places of articulation that are not palatalized like English palato-alveolar sh, or retroflex. To disambiguate, the bridge...

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Voiced retroflex affricate
Kamis, 2026-08-06 14:24:51

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Voiced alveolar fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:12:18

Sibilants may be articulated with various tongue shapes and degrees of palatalization, depending on their place of articulation. There are at least three...

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Set (deity)
Selasa, 2026-07-21 19:55:40

hieroglyphs as stẖ and swtẖ. The Late Egyptian spelling stš reflects the palatalization of ẖ while the eventual loss of the final consonant is recorded in spellings...

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Karaim language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:34:41

harmony in palatalization of consonants. Thus, in any given word, only palatalized or only non-palatalized consonants can be found. Palatalized consonants...

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Nuosu language
Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:24:14

alveolo-palatal series is notated as palatalized (post)alveolar (i.e. with /ʃʲ ʒʲ nʲ/ instead of /ɕ ʑ ȵ/) The alveolo-palatal (palatalized) nasal includes a voiceless...

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Kimbundu
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:21:00

[d] or its palatalized version [dʲ] when before the front high vowel /i/. In the same way, the alveolars /s/, /z/ and /n/ are palatalized to [ʃ], [ʒ]...

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Ludmila (given name)
Selasa, 2026-01-27 14:25:18

("people") and mila ("dear, love"). Because the initial L is mostly soft (palatalized), it is sometimes also transcribed Lyudmila, Lyudmyla or Ljudmila, and...

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Transliteration
Jumat, 2026-07-24 06:46:39

[eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia] in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Here, ⟨ή⟩ palatalizes the preceding ⟨κ⟩, and thus is represented in IPA with [c], the palatal...

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Voiced retroflex fricative
Senin, 2026-04-20 03:55:10

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Trøndersk
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:29:41

among other things, perhaps mostly characterized by the use of apocope, palatalization and the use of voiced retroflex flaps (thick L). Historically it also...

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Acute accent
Kamis, 2026-07-09 11:43:34

[u]. A graphically similar, but not identical, mark is indicative of a palatalized sound in several languages. In Polish, such a mark is known as a kreska...

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Old Church Slavonic
Kamis, 2026-08-13 21:26:24

freedom'. d /ts/ and /dz/ are thought to have been originally pronounced as palatalized consonants: [tsʲ], [dzʲ], as evident from following vowels (ъ>ь, o>e)...

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List of Unicode characters
Jumat, 2026-08-14 09:36:56

U+0320    ̠ 800 Combining Minus Sign Below U+0321    ̡ 801 Combining Palatalized Hook Below U+0322    ̢ 802 Combining Retroflex Hook Below U+0323    ̣...

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Võro language
Senin, 2026-06-29 03:30:09

included for comparison: All Võro consonants (except /j/ and /ʔ/) can be palatalized. The glottal stop (q, IPA [ʔ]) is a very common sound in Võro. Võro employs...

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Es (Cyrillic)
Kamis, 2026-08-13 06:21:16

voiceless alveolar fricative /s/, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand" palatalized voiceless alveolar fricative /sʲ/ The pronunciations shown in the table...

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Cantonese phonology
Minggu, 2026-07-19 05:30:34

indicate they are palatalized before close front vowels /iː/ and /yː/. The affricates /t͡s/ and /t͡sʰ/ also have a tendency to be palatalized before central...

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Estonian phonology
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 21:47:57

need a front vowel, and palatalized vs. plain continuants can be articulated. Estonian has pre-palatalization: palatalization occurs before rather than...

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Yōon
Kamis, 2026-06-25 09:06:26

Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added [j] sound (i.e., palatalized) or, more rarely in the modern language, with an added [w] sound (i.e...

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Proto-Greek language
Senin, 2026-08-10 08:35:32

was lost in the process. The palatalized consonants later simplified, mostly losing their palatal character. Palatalization occurred in two separate stages...

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J
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 14:06:00

voiced palatal approximant, and a superscript ⟨ʲ⟩ is used to represent palatalization. In international licence plate codes, J stands for Japan. In mathematics...

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Cyrillic alphabets
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 16:03:24

знак” in Russian, indicates the lack of palatalization in a context where the consonant would usually be palatalized². Yery (Ы ы) indicates [ɨ] (an allophone...

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Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:02:36

dorsum) is raised toward the front of the hard palate. It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the...

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Podolian dialect
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 06:35:00

transition of [a] into [ɛ], [i] after palatalized consonants (except western varieties); lack of palatalization in [r] before vowels: бурáк [bʊˈrak],...

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Zulu language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 06:10:02

effect. Palatalization is a change that affects labial and alveolar consonants whenever they are immediately followed by /j/. While palatalization occurred...

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Soft De
Senin, 2026-06-15 21:48:10

certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of Д҄, denoting a palatalized Д. Cyrillic characters in Unicode Cyrillization of Arabic "Compart Ꙣ"...

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Ukrainian Ye
Jumat, 2026-07-24 02:05:42

represents the sound combination /je/ or the vowel sound /e/ after a palatalized consonant. It is the 8th letter of Ukrainian alphabet (in 1935-1992 it...

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De (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:31:31

⟨d⟩ in "dire" palatalized voiced alveolar plosive /dʲ/ Voiceless alveolar plosive /t/, like the pronunciation of ⟨t⟩ in "team" palatalized voiceless alveolar...

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Patagonian Afrikaans
Kamis, 2026-08-13 20:42:33

"several hundred" in Comodoro. Patagonian Afrikaans exhibits velar palatalization before non-back mid and high vowels /i ɛ ə iə ei/ so that kind [kənd]...

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Ya (kana)
Kamis, 2024-07-11 07:00:45

character 也. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [a] vowel (see yōon). や can...

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Lower Sorbian language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:35:13

d/ and their palatalized counterparts has evolved into a contrast between /t, d/ and /ɕ, ʑ/. The contrast between /l/ and its palatalized counterpart has...

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Achilles
Minggu, 2026-08-09 22:17:50

coexistence of -λλ- and -λ- in epic language, which may account for a palatalized phoneme /ly/ in the original language. Among the appellations under which...

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Andalusi Romance
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:26:11

possibly changed to /ei̯/ Diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ, ĕ/ Palatalization and affrication of Latin /k/ before front vowels to /tʃ/ Retention of...

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Nauruan language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 02:05:55

contrasts between velarized and palatalized labial consonants. Velarization is not apparent before long back vowels and palatalization is not apparent before non-low...

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Publilius Syrus
Kamis, 2026-06-25 01:46:23

He became a member of the Publilia gens. Publilius' name, due to the palatalization of 'l' between two 'i's in the Early Middle Ages, is often presented...

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Northern Borderlands dialect
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 09:49:55

Standard Polish /w/, spelled <ł>, is pronounced /ɫ/, and standard /l/ is palatalized, yielding /lʲ/, like in the Southern Borderlands dialect. The standard...

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Philippine Spanish
Rabu, 2026-07-15 23:56:55

in the suffix -ado. Before the close vowel /i/, /d/ and /t/ are often palatalized by Philippine Spanish speakers, becoming [dʲ] and [tʲ] respectively....

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Tunumiisut
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:24:42

heard as [d] in initial positions. Sounds /s, sː/ may also be heard as palatalized sounds [ɕ, t͡ɕ] when in palatal positions. Sounds /k/ and /q/ may also...

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Pe (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:28:05

voiceless bilabial plosive /p/, like the pronunciation of ⟨p⟩ in "pack" palatalized voiceless bilabial plosive /pʲ/ The pronunciations shown in the table...

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Ka with grave
Kamis, 2025-05-01 19:58:00

in Ivan Yakovlev's initial alphabet of 47 letters, representing the palatalized voiceless velar plosive [kʲ] or the voiceless palatal plosive [c]. Ka...

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Vulgar Latin
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:31:52

hiatus (after a consonant and before another vowel) became [j], which palatalized preceding consonants. /w/ (except after /k/) and intervocalic /b/ merge...

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Russian language
Senin, 2026-08-10 17:17:29

Southern Russian dialects, instances of unstressed /e/ and /a/ following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to [ɪ] (as...

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Acadian French
Jumat, 2026-05-22 08:33:45

characteristics of Acadian are: The verbal ending -ont in the third person plural Palatalization of /k/ and /ɡ/ to [tʃ] and [dʒ], respectively A feature called l'ouisme...

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Volhynian dialect
Jumat, 2026-07-31 05:54:27

plural in Volhynian dialect are palatalized (-ть, -ць); but in some western varieties the word-final [t] is palatalized only in imperative mood; in part...

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Ř
Rabu, 2026-07-08 04:22:38

either by ř being trilled and r being a tap, or by ř being palatalized and r not being palatalized. Ř is a rhotic approximant or fricative in some dialects...

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Yugh language
Senin, 2026-06-22 21:20:46

Consonants of Yugh Labial Alveolar Alveolo- Palatal Palatalized Velar Uvular Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal Plosive voiceless p [p] t [t] tʼ [tʲ] k [k] (q [q])...

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Khanty languages
Jumat, 2026-05-01 07:58:01

include the development of original *ć to a palatalized stop /tʲ/ in Eastern and Southern Khanty but to a palatalized sibilant /sʲ ~ ɕ/ in Northern, as well...

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Southern Borderlands dialect
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 09:51:43

standard /l/ is palatalized, yielding /lʲ/, like in the Northern Borderlands dialect. Standard Polish /x/, spelled ⟨ch⟩, may be palatalized, yielding /xʲ/...

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Yi (kana)
Minggu, 2026-02-08 22:27:52

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Polish language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 17:25:37

case, where the consonant remains unpalatalized but is followed by a palatalized consonant, is written by using j instead of i: for example, zjeść, "to...

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East Slavic languages
Jumat, 2026-07-17 15:00:24

Moreover, the letter Щ in standard Russian is always pronounced softly (palatalization). Standard Ukrainian, unlike all the other Slavic languages (excl. Serbo-Croatian)...

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Cedilla
Kamis, 2026-05-07 01:35:40

from a Latin /k/ c that was palatalized and then assibilated. Before vowels that would otherwise trigger a non-palatalized (and therefore incorrect) pronunciation...

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Japanese language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 15:29:49

including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence /ti/ was palatalized and realized phonetically as [tɕi], approximately chi (listen); however...

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Marshallese language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:31:05

"light" (palatalized). As stated before, the palatal consonant articulations [c], [ɟ], [ç] and [ʝ] are treated as allophones of the palatalized coronal...

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Occitano-Romance languages
Minggu, 2026-07-19 10:37:48

consonantic groups FL-/CL-/PL-: Some dialects of both Occitan and Aragonese palatalize these groups into FLL-/CLL-/PLL-. A large part of the lexicon is shared...

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Hard sign
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:52:16

performed by a following j rather than the i that would be present after a palatalized consonant. In the Carpatho-Rusyn alphabets of Slovakia and Poland, ъ...

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Uralic languages
Minggu, 2026-08-16 02:46:09

languages, for example Skolt Sámi, distinguish three degrees: plain ⟨l⟩ [l], palatalized ⟨'l⟩ [lʲ], and palatal ⟨lj⟩ [ʎ], where ⟨'l⟩ has a primary alveolar articulation...

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Steppe dialect
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 07:42:29

Consonants before [i]<[o],[e],[ě] may be palatalized or non-palatalized. Word-final phonemes [t͡s], [t], [r] are palatalized, but labial consonants [p], [b],...

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Standard Arabic phonology
Jumat, 2026-08-14 06:39:53

attested in pre-Islamic Greek transcription of Arabic languages – became palatalized to /ɡʲ/ or /ɟ/ by the time of the Quran, and to /d͡ʒ/, /ɡ/, /ʒ/ or /ɟ/...

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Yu (kana)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 16:10:51

[jɯ]. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [ɯ] vowel (see yōon). In loanwords...

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Walser German
Senin, 2026-01-05 08:20:44

before vowels. In the Formazza dialects, velar sounds /k, ɡ/ can be palatalized as [kʲ, ɡʲ] or become palatal as [c, ɟ] when within the positions of...

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Buwal language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 08:30:17

(underlyingly /māⁿdwán/), which is non-palatalized, and [mɛ̀vɛ̄ɗvɛ̄ɗɛ̄ŋ] (underlyingly /màvāɗvāɗāŋ/) 'turtle', which is palatalized. This process does not affect...

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Komi language
Senin, 2026-07-20 12:35:44

unchanged in these. Some dialects are further distinguished based on the palatalized alveolars /dʲ tʲ/, which have unpacked in syllable-final position as...

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History of the International Phonetic Alphabet
Jumat, 2026-08-14 03:05:14

The chart was republished in 1951. Other Sounds.—Palatalized consonants: ƫ, ᶁ, etc.; palatalized ʃ, ʒ: ʆ, ʓ Velarized or pharyngealized consonants:...

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Spacing Modifier Letters
Rabu, 2026-03-18 14:17:42

Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for aspiration and palatalization. The word spacing indicates that these characters occupy their own horizontal...

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Telugu language
Minggu, 2026-08-16 11:27:09

(intermediate 'yonder'; in Classical Telugu, ulla). Pre-palatalized Initials: Pre-palatalized velar initials before i/e/ay are identified in words like...

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Anaang language
Kamis, 2026-08-06 20:14:46

(2011). Consonants /p, b, t, d, k, k͡p, f, m, n, l, w/ may be heard as palatalized [ʲ] when occurring before /i/. /ʁ/ may also be heard as a trill [ʀ] when...

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I with diaeresis (Cyrillic)
Selasa, 2026-03-31 03:27:34

the close front unrounded vowel /i/, and is used only after the non-palatalized dentals /d/, /z/, /l/, /n/, /s/ and /t/; the Cyrillic letter I (Ии) is...

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Proto-Uralic language
Kamis, 2026-07-02 02:20:02

*δ´ is also subject to some doubt. It is traditionally analyzed as the palatalized counterpart of the voiced dental fricative *δ, that is, as [ðʲ]; however...

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G
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 00:20:39

similar-looking 'K'. Eventually, both velar consonants /k/ and /ɡ/ developed palatalized allophones before front vowels; consequently in today's Romance languages...

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Consonant
Selasa, 2026-03-03 10:25:27

feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical *k has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has /tʃ/ and /kʷ/ but...

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Hyottoko
Senin, 2025-12-01 21:58:23

Local dialects transformed it into Hyottoko (ひょっとこ),[citation needed] palatalizing hio to hyo and geminating the /t/. Hyottoko seems to have been a legendary...

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Voiced retroflex approximant
Kamis, 2026-07-09 23:33:23

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
Selasa, 2026-07-28 21:33:43

to /s/. When geminate (double), palatalized cc and gg were affected diversely; only the second c in cc was palatalized, producing the sound /ks/, as in...

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Voiceless retroflex fricative
Selasa, 2026-04-28 00:20:42

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Ç
Selasa, 2026-07-21 06:22:57

of the letter z ⟨Ꝣ⟩. The phoneme originated in Vulgar Latin from the palatalization of the plosives /t/ and /k/ in some conditions. Later, /t͡s/ changed...

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Sanöma language
Selasa, 2026-05-19 22:22:38

can be heard as an affricate [ts], or as [tʃ] when palatalized, preceding /i/. /l/  becomes palatalized to [ʎ] when preceding /i, e/. /a/ has an allophone...

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Hutsul dialect
Kamis, 2026-07-16 16:17:54

Ukrainian - клен [kɫɛn], серце [ˈsɛrt͡se], береза [beˈrɛzɐ]; [a] after palatalized consonants is changed in the same manner: ш’и́пка [ʃʲɐpkɐ], йі(е)к [jɐk]...

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History of the Czech language
Senin, 2026-02-16 14:55:26

thus the frequency of occurrence of palatalized consonants was lowered, but it strengthened the palatalization contrast at the same time. The change...

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Dniestrian Ukrainian dialect
Minggu, 2026-04-26 01:39:21

vowel [a] (derived from old [a], [ɛ̃]) into [e], [ɛ], [ɪ] following palatalized consonants: гарьичий [ɦɐˈrʲet͡ʃei̯], дєкувати [ˈdʲɛkʊwɐte], сажі [ˈsaʒɪ]...

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Japanese grammar
Minggu, 2026-04-05 22:53:45

changes. Note that the palatalized morae ゆ and よ (yu and yo) combine with the initial consonant (if present) yielding a palatalized syllable. The most basic...

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La Spezia–Rimini Line
Selasa, 2026-03-03 20:56:14

In the Romance linguistics, the La Spezia–Rimini Line, also known as the Massa–Senigallia Line, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses...

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Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 06:25:39

*ai to *ě in open syllables and *i in closed syllables, velars became palatalized again. The process had different outcomes based on dialect: *k typically...

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Hard
Senin, 2026-08-10 16:05:20

Recreation and Park District, California, U.S. Hard, consonants that are not palatalized All pages with titles beginning with Hard All pages with titles containing...

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Fortition
Selasa, 2026-05-26 00:09:17

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Proto-Mayan language
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:41:48

by a number of languages; a grey background indicates no change. The palatalized plosives [tʲʼ] and [tʲ] have not been retained in most of the modern...

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Finno-Ugric transcription
Rabu, 2026-08-12 15:22:36

counterparts are 'semivowels', while ɹ ɹ̤ are 'vibrationless rhotics'. Palatalized consonants are indicated with an acute accent. Only a few are shown in...

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Osage language
Jumat, 2026-08-07 23:30:57

optionally pronounced [n] in many words. It is also sometimes strongly palatalized intervocalically, to the point of becoming [j]. In words with l, this...

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Icelandic phonology
Minggu, 2026-08-16 15:27:16

Unlike many languages, Icelandic has only very minor dialectal differences in sounds. The language has both monophthongs and diphthongs, and many consonants...

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Elision
Senin, 2026-08-03 22:54:14

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Russian Latin alphabet
Rabu, 2026-05-13 07:10:00

words, before consonants and not palatalized vowels, in the same sense digraph ch (ruchi); c (ч) before palatalized vowels (but compare: noch); g (г)...

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X
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:04:39

op. cit. Barbato, Marcello (2022). "The early history of Romance palatalizations". Oxford Research Encyclopedias. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655...

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Soft El
Jumat, 2025-07-25 22:41:36

certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of Л҄, denoting a palatalized Л. This letter is also used for the Cyrillization of Arabic.[citation...

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West Germanic languages
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 10:55:48

growing partake in the High German consonant shift and the anglofrisian palatalization. The table uses IPA, to avoid confusion via orthographical differences...

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Proto-Nuristani language
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 02:38:39

Halfmann posits a merger of *s and *š as *s, which was subsequently palatalized near *i. Proto-Nuristani shares with Iranian languages the merger of...

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Tanoan languages
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:34:41

alveolar [ts, tsʼ]. This consonant is transcribed as a palatalized [tʸ] in Hale (1967) and palatalized [kʸ] in Hale (1962). The data here is from Hale (1967)...

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Tundra Nenets language
Senin, 2026-02-09 06:04:51

word-final n. As in Russian, the consonants are palatalized using the soft sign, ⟨ь⟩. For example, the palatalized consonant m' is represented with ⟨мь⟩ in Cyrillic...

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Latvian declension
Rabu, 2026-06-24 16:56:06

in writing. As with assimilative palatalization /k/ and /ɡ/ before a front vowel (/e/ or /i/) take on their palatalized values regardless of their position...

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Yapese language
Minggu, 2026-01-11 10:22:22

consonants may be palatalized next to front vowels, central vowels, and /u uː/, but not /æ æː/, though obstruents are less obviously palatalized. In the table...

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Old Frisian
Senin, 2026-08-03 07:00:08

process is known as the Rüstring a-mutation. Following fronting and the palatalization of *-ag- and *-eg, which typically became ei, Old Weser Frisian exhibits...

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Alveolar ejective fricative
Minggu, 2026-07-19 01:47:52

Sibilants may be articulated with various tongue shapes and degrees of palatalization, depending on their place of articulation. Its place of articulation...

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Estonian language
Kamis, 2026-07-16 12:16:12

Estonian Labial Alveolar Post- alveolar Velar/ palatal Glottal plain palatalized Nasal m n nʲ Plosive short p t tʲ k geminated pː tː tʲː kː Fricative...

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Proto-Indo-Iranian language
Kamis, 2026-08-13 05:08:02

Proto-Indo-European plain and labialized velars, *k, *g, *gʰ and *kʷ, *gʷ, *gʷʰ, in palatalizing contexts). The following table shows the most common reflexes of the...

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Plautdietsch
Senin, 2026-07-27 01:00:05

the palatalized sound is retained. Also where German has a palatalization (of the shifted /ç/ consonant), Plautdietsch retains the palatalization (of...

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Tsogo languages
Minggu, 2024-06-02 14:33:40

Labial Coronal Dorsal Plosives Affricate ts Palatalized dj Voiceless p t k Voiced b d Prenasalized mb nd ŋg Fricatives Voiceless f s Voiced β ɣ Prenasalized...

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Belarusian phonology
Rabu, 2026-06-24 20:24:24

changed (see distinctive features below). Some consonants do not have palatalized counterparts. As an East Slavic language, Belarusian phonology is very...

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Agder
Minggu, 2026-05-10 07:18:19

6th century. If Jordanes's Scandza is a palatalized form of *Scandia, then Augandzi is likely a palatalized form of *Augandii, residents of *Augandia...

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Y
Senin, 2026-08-03 04:28:20

(also l in Slovak) before orthographic (and historical) ⟨y⟩ are not palatalized, whereas they are before ⟨i⟩. Therefore, ⟨y⟩ is called tvrdé y (hard...

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Basque alphabet
Jumat, 2025-10-24 13:47:02

The main exception is if ⟨l, n, t⟩ are preceded by ⟨i⟩; most dialects palatalize the sound into /ʎ/, /ɲ/ and /c/ even if that is not written. ⟨h⟩ is silent...

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Ŭ
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 20:48:04

previous consonant was not palatalized, or that the preceding i was the vowel [i] and not a mere marker of palatalization. When ŭ was pronounced, it would...

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Irish phonology
Senin, 2026-07-27 02:31:21

articulation) or simply velar (for example, /k ɡ/). Slender consonants are palatalized (◌ʲ; tongue pushed up towards the hard palate during articulation). The...

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Labial–coronal consonant
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:15:54

but phonetically voiced), of which /t̪͡pʲ/ and /ⁿd̪͡bʲ/ may also occur palatalized. Labial–postalveolar consonants are doubly articulated consonants that...

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Transcarpathian dialect
Jumat, 2026-05-29 12:52:48

both stressed and unstressed positions before [i], [y], [ɪ], as well as palatalized consonants: пирші [ˈpɪrʃʲi], динь [dɪnʲ] (standard Ukrainian перші [ˈpɛrʃʲi]...

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Shi (kana)
Minggu, 2026-02-15 07:07:38

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Cocopah language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 17:56:56

/lʲ, ɬʲ/ are palatalized alveolar consonants. /ɬʲ/ is usually palatalized, but unlike /lʲ/ it does not contrast with a non-palatalized [ɬ]. Cocopah has...

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Lithuanian orthography
Selasa, 2026-07-14 22:08:39

are usually long. Consonants are always palatalized before ⟨e ę ė i į y⟩; before ⟨a ą o u ų ū⟩, palatalization is denoted by inserting an ⟨i⟩ between the...

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I (kana)
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 07:41:05

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Umlaut (linguistics)
Senin, 2026-04-20 04:19:28

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Occitan language
Minggu, 2026-08-16 01:26:01

features of the northerly dialects shared with French, but not Catalan: Palatalization of ca-, ga- to /tʃa, dʒa/. Vocalization of syllable-final /l/ to /w/...

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Sonorant
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 03:18:55

are merely representative. It has been noted that glottal stops with palatalization and labialization, respectively /ʔʲ/ and /ʔʷ/, are quite similar to...

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Diacritic
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 03:27:58

stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced...

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Place of articulation
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:56:32

both articulations can be similar such as labialized labial [mʷ] or palatalized velar [kʲ]. That is the case of English [w], which is a velar consonant...

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Grave and acute
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:22:48

important because of the acoustic similarity between true palatal and palatalized coronal consonants and the fact that one often changes into the other...

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Voiced retroflex plosive
Senin, 2026-04-20 02:16:23

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Spanish language
Minggu, 2026-08-16 01:53:40

syllables in Spanish, as shown in the following table: Spanish is marked by palatalization of the Latin double consonants (geminates) nn and ll (thus Latin annum...

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Latvian language
Jumat, 2026-07-17 22:18:29

comma placed underneath (or above them for lowercase g), which indicate palatalized versions of ⟨g, k, l, n⟩ representing the sounds [ɟ], [c], [ʎ] and [ɲ]...

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Old Prussian language
Senin, 2026-07-20 01:05:42

/au/ may have also been realized as a mid-back diphthong [eu] after palatalized consonants. /ui/ occurs in the word cuylis, which is thought to be a...

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Furigana
Rabu, 2026-06-24 17:22:02

are used in regular orthography to mark such things as gemination and palatalization, is often not made in furigana: for example, the usual hiragana spelling...

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Varieties of Chinese
Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:44:16

palatalization of dental affricates, velars (as in Suzhou), or both. In many places, including Beijing, palatalized dental affricates and palatalized...

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Bulgarian nouns
Senin, 2026-02-23 15:39:46

(apophony) бряг—бреговè Metathesis of ъ in the letter group ръ връх—върховè Palatalization of the preceding consonant, indicated by the letter ь зет—зèтьове A...

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Affricate
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:34:25

and prenasalized: [ⁿdz, ⁿtsʰ, ᶯɖʐ, ᶯʈʂʰ] (as in Hmong). Labialized, palatalized, velarized, and pharyngealized affricates are also common. Affricates...

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Proto-Tupian language
Senin, 2025-10-06 15:51:43

Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Plain Labialized Plain Palatalized Plain Labialized Palatalized Nasal m n ŋ ŋʷ Stop p b pʷ t tʲ k kʷ kʲ ʔ Affricate ts...

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Voiceless postalveolar fricative
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 00:25:03

this sound is palato-alveolar (somewhat palatalized post-alveolar) or alveolo-palatal (strongly palatalized post-alveolar). Dubisz, Karaś & Kolis (1995)...

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Forest Nenets language
Selasa, 2026-02-03 01:35:10

/r/, /rʲ/ have recently shifted to lateral fricatives /ɬ/, /ɬʲ/. The palatalized alveolars /tʲ/, /sʲ/ are typically realized as alveolo-palatals [tɕ]...

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Haplology
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:33:49

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Midland Mixe
Selasa, 2025-08-19 11:49:39

[ø] and [ʊ] only occur as allophones of /o/ and /u/, respectively, in palatalized environments, and [æ] sometimes alternates with /a/. Juquila at Ethnologue...

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Old Irish grammar
Jumat, 2026-07-10 03:06:45

cluster cht /xt/ never palatalized. Whenever palatalization was expected for grammatical or etymological reasons, the palatalization was omitted. For example...

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Hard and soft C
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 04:23:14

consonants including ⟨c⟩ have a "broad" (velarized) vs "slender" distinction (palatalized) for many of its other consonants generally based on whether the nearest...

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Brazilian Portuguese
Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:06:55

ˈmũj̃ntʊ] One of the most noticeable tendencies of modern BP is the palatalization of /d/ and /t/ by most regions, which are pronounced [dʒ] and [tʃ],...

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Pannonian Rusyn
Selasa, 2026-08-04 19:48:26

rather than [pɔˈd͡ʒɛmni]; or it may be used to prevent a palatalizable consonant from being palatalized, such as in the word ст'юардеса (st'juardesa, "female...

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Umbrian language
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:31:09

'city' : Oscan touto. Velars are palatalized and spirantized before front vowels and the front glide /j/ to probably a palatalized sibilant (perhaps the postalveolar...

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Voiceless retroflex affricate
Jumat, 2026-03-20 12:49:01

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Kursenieki language
Minggu, 2026-03-22 23:50:43

in German-influenced speech. Palatalized forms occur contextually or phonemically. Sonants (m, n, l, r, v) show palatalized variants ([mʲ], [nʲ], [lʲ],...

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Ǧ
Senin, 2026-06-08 21:59:19

orthographies. In the Romany and Skolt Sami languages, it represents the palatalized g [ɟ͡ʝ]. It has also been used in Czech and Slovak orthographies until...

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Old Pskov dialect
Selasa, 2026-06-23 14:37:28

Explaining Why the Early North Russian Nominative Singular in -e Does Not Palatalize Stem-Final Velars". Russian Linguistics. 18 (2): 145–157. ISSN 0304-3487...

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Silesian orthography
Minggu, 2026-08-02 10:53:43

unvoiced when before an unvoiced consonant or at the end of a word. Palatalized consonants are written with <j>. Ślabikŏrzowy szrajbōnek was adopted...

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Sorbian languages
Minggu, 2026-05-17 20:05:39

(2022): 281–302. Online open access. Howson, Phil J. (2018). "Rhotics and Palatalization: An Acoustic Examination of Upper and Lower Sorbian". Phonetica. 75...

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Iberian Romance languages
Minggu, 2026-08-02 00:52:26

in a different way; compare ano vs. mão. Initial Latin CL/FL/PL are palatalized further than in Standard Italian, and become indistinguishable (to CH...

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Baiano Portuguese
Rabu, 2026-08-05 20:55:07

such as "NecessidaDe" and "IdaDe" becomes a /d/, as opposite to the palatalized /dʒ/ of the coastal subdialects. Southern Coast, spoken in the coastal...

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Paulistano dialect
Rabu, 2026-06-10 11:14:31

Southeast: tio [ˈtʃiu] and dia [ˈdʒi.ɐ]. The fricatives /s/ and /z/ are not palatalized. Examples: véspera [ˈvɛs.pe.ɾɐ], isto [ˈis.tu], desde [ˈdez.dʒi]. /R/...

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Bangolan language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 08:30:16

[d͡ʒ] in labialized or palatalized syllables after nasal consonants (e.g., [nd͡ʒìŋ] 'darkness'), [ʒ] in labialized or palatalized syllables (e.g., [wǎʒwí]...

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Greek diacritics
Selasa, 2026-08-11 04:13:24

and Tsakonian, a caron (ˇ) may be used on some consonants to show a palatalized pronunciation. They are not encoded as precombined characters in Unicode...

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El with middle hook
Selasa, 2025-11-25 17:17:28

Abkhaz[citation needed] and Chuvash languages. In Chuvash it was used for the palatalized alveolar lateral approximant /lʲ/, and corresponds in other Chuvash orthographies...

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Index of phonetics articles
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 14:10:44

ejective affricate (cʎ̝̥ʼ) Palatal lateral flap (ʎ̯) Palatal nasal (ɲ, ɲ̟) Palatalization Palato-alveolar ejective affricate (tʃʼ) Palato-alveolar ejective fricative...

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Be (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:24:01

voiceless consonant, it also represents the voiceless [p]. Before a palatalizing vowel, it represents /bʲ/. In Macedonian, the letter represents the sound...

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Castilian Spanish
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:25:45

or becomes [x] before /k/. /tʃ/, spelled as ⟨ch⟩, is pronounced as a palatalized voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡sʲ], at least in Madrid. Spanish from...

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Fraktur
Senin, 2026-06-15 23:18:15

marks. Stroked letters ⟨Ꞡ ꞡ⟩, ⟨Ꞣ ꞣ⟩, ⟨Ł ł⟩, ⟨Ꞥ ꞥ⟩, ⟨Ꞧ ꞧ⟩ are used for palatalized consonants (⟨Ģ ģ⟩, ⟨Ķ ķ⟩, ⟨Ļ ļ⟩, ⟨Ņ ņ⟩, ⟨Ŗ ŗ⟩), stroked variants of ⟨s⟩...

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Egyptian uniliteral signs
Senin, 2026-06-08 09:53:54

words, palatalized [kʲ] a jar stand g g   ejective [kʼ] a bun t t   aspirated [tʰ] a tethering rope ṯ or tj ch as in English church palatalized [tʲ] or...

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Albanian language
Jumat, 2026-08-07 05:00:10

paganus → pagan; plaga → plagë 'wound', etc. Latin /tj/, /dj/, /kj/ palatalized to Albanian /s/, /z/, /c/: vitium → ves 'vice; worries'; ratiōnem → arsye...

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Michif
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:40:46

vowel-initial. The voiced alveolar stop /d/ in French-origin words is palatalized to /dʒ/ in Michif, as in Acadian French. This may occur word-initially...

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Slovene national phonetic transcription
Kamis, 2024-11-07 07:53:34

unknown whether they are palatal or only palatalized and what is the difference between them and palatalized č and ǯ, or palatal ć, ʒ́, ś, and ź. IPA...

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Southern Russian dialects
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:51:49

akanye), less often to [ɐ], [ə], [ɨ]. Unstressed /o/, /e/, /a/ following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to [ɪ] (like...

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Northwest Caucasian languages
Kamis, 2026-07-02 00:48:41

two distinctive vowels, an open vowel /a/ and a mid vowel /ə/. Next to palatalized or labialized consonants, /a/ is realized as [e] or [o], and /ə/ as [i]...

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Lezgin alphabets
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 21:25:01

уь, кь). Lezgin has no soft phonemes and the ь is not used to denote palatalization, even in borrowed words (where it is not written; e.g., автомобил, мултфилм)...

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Kildin Sámi orthography
Selasa, 2026-04-14 12:43:18

consonants may be either palatalized on non-palatalized with the exceptions of Ꞓ and Ʒ, which are obligatorily palatalized. Some palatalized letters are typeset...

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Hopi language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:40:38

speakers, they are palatalized to [tsʲ] and [sʲ], which can sound similar to /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ of English. In Mishongnovi, /ts/ is palatalized when at the beginning...

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Chimakuan languages
Minggu, 2026-06-28 05:39:53

sibilants *s, *c, *c̓. Thereäfter the plain velars *x, *k, *k̓ were palatalized and affricated to š, č, č̓. The Proto-Chimakuan glides *y, *y̓, *w, *w̓...

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J (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2026-06-21 19:41:56

approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet ʲ, the symbol for palatalization in the IPA Agent J, in the Men in Black films J, a Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo...

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Tamang language
Kamis, 2026-08-06 14:42:05

ŋ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t ts ʈ k aspirated pʰ tʰ tsʰ ʈʰ kʰ palatalized pʲ tʲ tsʲ ʈʲ kʲ labialized pʷ tʷ tsʷ ʈʷ kʷ Fricative s h Rhotic r Approximant...

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Antiguan and Barbudan Creole
Minggu, 2026-06-14 08:31:21

syllable in which the glide between a palatalized consonant and a vowel occurs always carries primary stress. Palatalized consonants are more common in rural...

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Slavomolisano
Jumat, 2026-03-06 05:08:59

Iazychie Slavonic-Serbian Historical phonology Slavic first palatalization Slavic second palatalization Slavic liquid metathesis and pleophony Monophthongization...

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Tsu (kana)
Minggu, 2026-04-19 03:31:22

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Phonological opacity
Minggu, 2026-03-08 14:38:06

Palatalization precedes Deletion, /t/ precedes /e/, therefore palatalizes into /tʃ/. /e/ precedes /o/, allowing for Deletion to occur. Palatalization...

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Hungarian language
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 08:41:12

some northern dialects (for example, the modern Palóc dialect), a fifth palatalized consonant, /ʎ/, existed, written ⟨ly⟩. Elsewhere, this phoneme has merged...

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Proto-Eskaleut language
Selasa, 2026-06-30 10:16:56

most likely a fully palatal approximant, but it is grouped with the palatalized alveolars for convenience. There are no generally accepted relations...

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Ru (kana)
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 13:39:15

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Appendix Probi
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:35:38

non cocens coqui non coci Reichenau Glossary Proto-Romance language Palatalization in the Romance languages Phonological changes from Classical Latin to...

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Hook (diacritic)
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 11:48:15

IPA: palatal hook Unicode has the combining diacritics U+0321  ̡  COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW and U+0322  ̢  COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW but these are...

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Proto-Northwest Caucasian language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 17:37:34

degree of allophony might have existed, especially near labialized and palatalized (or both) consonants. Some scholars assume that the rich consonantal...

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Sino-Korean vocabulary
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 02:25:37

Sino-Korean, dentals [t]/[tʰ] preceding a palatal approximant [j] become palatalized as [tɕ]/[tɕʰ], respectively, e.g. 田: ttyen > cen, 定: ttyeng > ceng. Portal:...

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Kirundi
Rabu, 2026-07-01 19:05:12

Ellen; Niyondagara, Alice (Spring 1990). "Feature geometry of Kirundi palatalization". Studies in the Linguistic Sciences. 20 (1): 71–88. ISSN 0049-2388...

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Krongo language
Jumat, 2025-11-07 01:47:50

fully palatalized. For /s/, palatalization is always optional. Thus the pronunciation of the word síkà could look like this: [sígà] → not palatalized, or...

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Kurdish phonology
Minggu, 2026-06-28 04:41:13

/t/ is palatalized to [tʲ]. An example is the Sorani word "galte" ('joke'), which is pronounced as [gɑːɫˈtʲæ]. /k/ and /ɡ/ are palatalized before close...

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Proto-Turkic language
Senin, 2026-07-13 00:43:00

series of nasal consonants. Some scholars additionally reconstruct the palatalized sounds ĺ and ŕ for the correspondence sets Oghuric /l/ ~ Common Turkic...

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Upper Sorbian language
Minggu, 2026-07-26 15:48:12

pʲ, bʲ/ are strongly palatalized. /w/ is a somewhat velarized bilabial approximant [β̞ˠ], whereas /wʲ/ is a strongly palatalized bilabial approximant...

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African Romance
Kamis, 2026-08-06 08:52:18

could have palatalized /k, g/ while eastern African Romance varieties could have conserved /k, g/ (It is also believed that palatalization of /g/ preceded...

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Southern Bengali dialects
Minggu, 2026-06-28 20:05:21

Realization of /j/ as [i] Vowel shortening Women and children sometimes show palatalization in certain lexical items. A notable feature is the realization of an...

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Zarma language
Senin, 2025-12-15 21:06:07

English j but more palatalized), ⟨y⟩ [j], ⟨r⟩ [ɾ] (a flap). The letter ⟨c⟩ is approximately like English ch but more palatalized. The palatal nasal ⟨ɲ⟩...

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Mada language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:38:49

to borrowing. Laminal consonants become post-alveolar consonants in palatalized words Implosives are unreleased word finally /t͡s, d͡z/ are grooved /h(ʷ)/...

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Sorbian alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 04:27:24

b’), ṕ (or p’), ḿ (or m’), ẃ (or w’) and rarely f́ (or f’) to indicate palatalized labials. These have been replaced by bj, pj, mj, wj, and fj. Sorbian...

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Good American Speech
Senin, 2026-07-13 06:31:39

after /r/, and optionally after /s/ and /l/. Mid-Atlantic also lacks palatalization, so duke is pronounced [djuːk] rather than [dʒuːk] (the first variant...

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Okinawan language
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 08:39:39

[ç], as in Japanese. The plosive consonants /t/ and /k/ historically palatalized and affricated into /t͡ɕ/ before and occasionally following the glide...

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Italian language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:21:57

are laminal denti-alveolar [n̪, l̪] before /t, d, t͡s, d͡z, s, z/ and palatalized laminal postalveolar [n̠ʲ, l̠ʲ] before /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ʃ/.[dubious – discuss]...

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Su (kana)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 16:28:55

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Voiced retroflex flap
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 05:46:38

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Breton language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 04:30:49

Stressed long ⟨e, eu, o⟩ represent [eː, øː, oː]. ^ In Gwenedeg velars are palatalized before ⟨e⟩ and ⟨i⟩, i.e. ⟨k⟩, ⟨g⟩, ⟨kw/kou⟩, ⟨cʼhw/cʼhou⟩, ⟨gw/gou⟩,...

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Vietnamese phonology
Senin, 2026-08-10 18:05:25

pronunciations taught in schools. /s/ is apico-alveolar [s̺]. /l/ is palatalized lamino-alveolar: [lʲ]. Some people pronounce d as [j], and gi as [z]...

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Portuguese language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 10:14:21

[ɪ], although many times it can be completely removed or reduced to palatalization ("prática" [ˈpɾatʃikɐ > ˈpɾatʃkɐ]; "truque" ['tɾuki > 'tɾukʲ]). Semivowels...

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Totontepec Mixe
Sabtu, 2025-05-31 03:56:09

of vowel duration contrasts in addition to glottalization. There is a palatalized series of all consonant phonemes (as in Russian, or Irish) and possibly...

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Slavic vocabulary
Rabu, 2026-03-04 01:55:14

or ni [ɲ]. All consonants are palatalized before i. Note that alveolar s, z, n become alveolopalatal when palatalized, absorbing the i before another...

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Dental and alveolar ejective stops
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 15:55:49

the IPA. In other transcription traditions, the apostrophe represents palatalization: ⟨pʼ⟩ = IPA ⟨pʲ⟩. In some Americanist traditions, an apostrophe indicates...

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Yemba language
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 21:58:17

following consonants /b d ɡ/. Alternation sounds of /j w/ are labialized and palatalized sounds [ɡʲ ɡʷ]. Graphemes of the alterations and allophones [t͡ʃ ʃ ʒ...

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Kirk (word)
Rabu, 2026-02-25 00:57:12

Icelandic & Faroese kirkja; Swedish kyrka (where the first ‘k’ was later palatalized as well); Danish and Norwegian (Bokmål) kirke; Norwegian (Nynorsk) kyrkje;...

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Ordos Mongolian
Senin, 2026-05-11 01:20:55

([ɑxɑ̯r]) 'short; short sheep's wool'. Accordingly, it could never acquire palatalized consonant phonemes. Due to their persistent existence as short non-initial...

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Phrygians
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:56:29

/e/ and /i/, especially in initial position, some consonants became palatalized. Furthermore, Kortlandt (1988) presented common sound changes of Thracian...

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Slavic name suffixes
Minggu, 2026-07-05 07:21:33

non-Russian) and -yov (Russian stressed) are the soft form of -ov, found after palatalized consonants or sibilants. The suffix -off comes from the French transliteration...

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Phonological history of Old Irish
Jumat, 2026-07-10 03:07:06

never be palatalized. Greene labels this stage the second palatalization, while McCone treats this as a substage of the first palatalization. The third...

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Dania transcription
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:29:43

its original tail, so that it looks like ⟨c⟩ with a looped ⟨j⟩ tail. Palatalized consonants are either ⟨n̑⟩ or ⟨n ̑⟩. Finer shades may be indicated by...

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Mandarin Chinese
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:47:48

palatalized velars /kj kʰj xj/ and palatalized alveolar sibilants /tsj tsʰj sj/. In about 20% of dialects, the alveolar sibilants did not palatalize,...

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Hausa language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:27:06

consonant phonemes depending on the speaker. The three-way contrast between palatalized /kʲ ɡʲ kʲʼ/, plain /k ɡ kʼ/, and labialized velars /kʷ ɡʷ kʷʼ/ is found...

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Voiced palatal fricative
Kamis, 2026-08-06 22:45:45

⟨ʝ̠⟩, ⟨ʝ᫢⟩ (a retracted ⟨ʝ⟩), ⟨ɣ̟⟩, ⟨ɣ᫈⟩ (an advanced ⟨ɣ⟩) or ⟨ɣʲ⟩ (palatalized ⟨ɣ⟩, though this is more ambiguous than the others; see below). Index...

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Karabakh dialect
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:06:55

softens that consonant. A consonant pronounced this way is called a palatalized consonant. The Karabakh dialect features unique vowels and consonants...

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Northern Jê languages
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:46:42

possible); this has been attributed to the influence of an underlying palatalizing nonfinite prefix. In addition to the aforementioned processes, the finiteness...

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Udi language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 10:43:52

close-mid front rounded vowel /ø/. Old Udi contained an additional series of palatalized consonants. The Old Udi language used the Caucasian Albanian alphabet...

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Ewe language
Selasa, 2026-08-04 12:16:03

before unrounded (non-back) vowels and [w] before rounded (back) vowels. Palatalization of alveolar consonants /t͡s, d͡z, s, z/ before a high-front vowel /i/...

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Savo dialects
Jumat, 2026-07-31 09:36:46

dialects have re-developed palatalized consonants (which were lost in Proto-Finnic). The consonants that can be palatalized are those that are coronal:...

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Yele language
Kamis, 2026-08-13 07:19:45

that it is distinct from well-attested palatalized /ʈɳʲ/ (for *-dnyiye) (Levinson 2022:45). Some palatalized and labialized consonants are only attested...

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Early Modern Japanese
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:13:54

The consonants /s, z/, /t/, /n/, /h, b/, /p/, /m/, and /r/ could be palatalized. Depalatalization could also be seen in the Edo dialect: hyakunin issyu...

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Combining Diacritical Marks
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:55:06

U+0320    ̠ 800 Combining Minus Sign Below U+0321    ̡ 801 Combining Palatalized Hook Below U+0322    ̢ 802 Combining Retroflex Hook Below U+0323    ̣...

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Jèrriais
Kamis, 2026-07-09 01:59:31

Palatalization is evident in Jèrriais pièche compared with French place (though they are not cognate) in this bilingual placename sign....

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Vowel–consonant harmony
Minggu, 2026-03-29 01:46:24

distant harmony system known as palatalization harmony, where the rightmost coronal consonant, aside from [r], is palatalized by [i] in the second-person...

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Yery
Rabu, 2026-07-08 03:16:04

⟨ы⟩ first occurred in South Slavic manuscripts following the loss of palatalization of word-final and preconsonantal consonants, so the letters ⟨ъ⟩ and...

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Voiceless dental and alveolar trills
Kamis, 2026-08-06 01:15:54

grasses' Contrasts with /r/: нарня [ˈnarnʲæ] "short grass". It has the palatalized counterpart /r̥ʲ/: марьхне [ˈmar̥ʲnʲæ] "these apples", but марьня [ˈmarʲnʲæ]...

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Co-articulated consonant
Kamis, 2026-02-26 02:06:54

frequently encountered are: labialization (such as [kʷ] in many languages) palatalization (such as "soft" consonants in Slavic languages, like [pʲ] in Russian)...

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A with diaeresis (Cyrillic)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 05:40:19

represents the open back unrounded vowel /a/ following a palatalized (sometimes called "half-palatalized") velar nasal /nʲ/ or one of the alveolar stops /tʲ/...

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Linguolabial consonant
Selasa, 2026-06-30 01:16:00

Percussive Secondary articulation Labialization Roundedness Palatalization Labio-palatalization Velarization Uvularization Pharyngealization Related Nasalization...

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Riunorese Leonese
Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:03:49

Iêl dixu for Él dixu 'He said' (both palatalized), Tu dixes for Tú dices 'You say' (other dialects not palatalized). Being in between Galician, Portuguese...

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Faux Cyrillic
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:29:55

in some dialects Ь lowercase b, vertically flipped P indicates the palatalization of the previous consonant, as in union as opposed to unite Э backwards...

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Port Erin
Selasa, 2026-03-31 05:51:54

was anglicized. The Manx version Purt Çhiarn is explained through the palatalization of plosive /t/ into affricate /tʃ/, resulting a pronunciation like [poːrˈtʃɑːrn]...

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Middle Dnieprian dialect
Senin, 2026-06-01 00:28:52

[i]<[o], [e] (except Poltava and some Right-bank subdialects); presence of palatalized [tʲ], [t͡sʲ], [rʲ], in some varieties also [ʒʲ], [ʃʲ], [t͡ʃʲ] (before...

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Â
Senin, 2026-07-20 20:46:04

pâ [paː] "for the". Â is used to indicate the consonant before "a" is palatalized, as in "kâr" (profit). It is also used to indicate /aː/ in words for...

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North Sea Germanic
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:39:22

experienced palatalization as a parallel development. Palatalization of k and g is also common in Old Saxon and Middle Low German. Palatalized k is indicated...

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Awakatek language
Jumat, 2026-08-07 09:15:12

Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal Normal Palatalized Plosive Normal p /p/ t /t/ k /k/ ky /kʲ/ q /q/ ' /ʔ/ Ejective tʼ /tʼ/...

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O (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:31:20

Russian, O is used word-initially, after another vowel, and after non-palatalized consonants. Because of a vowel reduction processes, the Russian /o/ phoneme...

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Zero-width non-joiner
Jumat, 2026-08-07 08:42:12

Ye represents the palatalization of the preceding consonant [◌ʲ], whereas the Gol Ye in the medial position represents the palatalized vowel sound [ʲa]...

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Voiceless palatal nasal
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:10:13

alveolo-palatal nasal may be transcribed as ⟨n̠̊ʲ⟩ (devoiced, retracted and palatalized ⟨n⟩), or ⟨ɲ̟̊ / ɲ̊˖⟩ (devoiced and advanced ⟨ɲ⟩); these are essentially...

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Sakizaya language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 10:23:15

/h/ may also be heard as [x] and [ʔ] in free variation. /ts, s, z/ are palatalized as [tɕ, ɕ, ʑ] when preceding front sounds /i, j/. /b/ may also be heard...

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Alveolo-palatal ejective fricative
Rabu, 2025-12-03 08:02:01

dorsum) is raised toward the front of the hard palate. It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the...

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Karelian alphabet
Selasa, 2026-01-20 19:36:08

Karelian, and in dʼ lʼ nʼ rʼ sʼ zʼ tʼ in Ludic and Tver Karelian, but other palatalized consonants are also used in names and loanwords from Russian. The letters...

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Mo (kana)
Kamis, 2025-10-09 21:44:38

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Maʼya language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:32:40

Maya Biga Kawe Legenyem Wauyai Twelve consonants may also be heard as palatalized /pʲ, bʲ, tʲ, dʲ, kʲ, ɡʲ/; /fʲ, sʲ/; /mʲ, nʲ, lʲ, wʲ/. When in word-final...

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Laz grammar
Minggu, 2026-06-21 07:56:23

Laz is a Kartvelian language. It is sometimes considered as a southern dialect of Zan languages, the northern dialect being the Mingrelian language. Today...

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Tibetic languages
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:53:09

stage of Proto-Tibetic. *ty-, *ly-, *sy- were not palatalized in Pre-Tibetic, but underwent palatalization in Proto-Tibetic (Tournadre 2014: 113-114). Posited...

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Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet
Rabu, 2026-07-15 05:25:26

ь i семнул моале (semnul moale) At end of word (usually) /ʲ/ (i.e. palatalization of preceding consonant [dubious – discuss]) ochi = окь Э э ă э (ă)  ...

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Old Irish
Rabu, 2026-07-22 05:47:49

arose from the u-infection of stressed /a/ by a /u/ that preceded a palatalized consonant. This vowel faced much inconsistency in spelling, often detectable...

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Siberian Ingrian Finnish
Rabu, 2026-07-22 03:19:05

moment, aspiration appears unstable. Palatalized consonant sounds - " ' ". Labialized consonant sounds - " ᵒ ". Palatalized and labialized consonant sounds...

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Proto-Austronesian language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 09:10:18

retroflex stop *j: palatalized voiced velar stop *S: voiceless alveolar sibilant fricative *s: voiceless palatal sibilant fricative *N: palatalized alveolar lateral...

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Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative
Senin, 2026-01-26 19:14:17

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Voiced palatal lateral flap
Kamis, 2026-08-06 13:23:23

weʼll [wɛʔʎ̆] 'stiff' Perhaps better analyzed as palatalized [ɺʲ], given the pervasive palatalization of the language. Optionally devoiced in coda position...

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Tungusic languages
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:08:54

Fuente, José Andrés. 2018. Past tenses, diminutives and expressive palatalization: Typology and the limits of internal reconstruction in Tungusic. In...

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Yagua language
Jumat, 2026-01-02 09:14:59

except for /s/, /tʃ/, and /j/ may be palatalized. In addition, bilabial stops may be labialized. /t, n, s/ when palatalized are heard as [tʲ, ɲ, ʃ]. /s/ and...

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Irop'a
Kamis, 2025-10-02 02:27:29

ISBN 978-0-521-65320-6. Lange, Roland A. (1969), "Documentary Evidence for a Palatalized /e/ Series in Middle Japanese", The Journal-Newsletter of the Association...

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Romanian alphabet
Kamis, 2026-08-13 15:00:42

previous consonant was not palatalized, or that the preceding i was the vowel [i] and not a mere marker of palatalization. When ŭ was pronounced, it would...

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Rhotacism
Selasa, 2026-07-07 23:05:53

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Voiced alveolar affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:42:15

Chikovani (2006:255) Gilles & Trouvain (2013), p. 72. (in Portuguese) Palatalization of dental occlusives /t/ and /d/ in the bilingual communities of Taquara...

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Yaneshaʼ language
Selasa, 2025-12-16 00:12:22

the basis of just palatalization; /t͡ʃʲ/, while contrasting with /t/, also contrasts with /ts/, /tʃ/, and /tʂ/. The bilabial palatalized consonants have...

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Baxter's transcription for Middle Chinese
Jumat, 2026-04-24 04:48:32

-r-, -y- and -h- do not represent separate segments, but retroflex, palatalized and aspirated articulation respectively of the preceding consonant. The...

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Palate
Kamis, 2026-02-19 22:51:07

mouth, the palate produces certain sounds, particularly velar, palatal, palatalized, postalveolar, alveolopalatal, and uvular consonants. Early synapsids...

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Korean phonology
Kamis, 2026-08-13 23:40:11

palatalizing environment, at least in South Korea. Similarly, an underlying ⫽t⫽ or ⫽tʰ⫽ at the end of a morpheme becomes a phonemically palatalized affricate...

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Voiceless retroflex plosive
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 08:48:44

but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue...

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Xhosa language
Kamis, 2026-08-13 00:40:01

palatalisation occurred historically, it is still productive, as is shown by palatalization before the passive suffix /-w/ and before diminutive suffix /-ana/....

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Hexagraph
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 08:46:27

⟨i⟩ on either side to indicate that the neighbouring consonants are palatalized ("slender"). However, not all Irish hexagraphs are analysable that way...

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Sj-sound
Minggu, 2026-07-05 17:44:29

variable in Swedish dialects, receiving pronunciations ranging from a palatalized bilabial sound to a velarized palato-alveolar one to a fully velar one...

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Achuar–Shiwiar language
Kamis, 2026-08-06 14:21:59

and affricates are usually voiced following a nasal consonant. /h/ is palatalized to [ç] when it is preceded by a front-high vowel. When /ɾ/ immediately...

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Connected speech
Minggu, 2024-02-04 05:46:15

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Proto-Circassian language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:24:46

old affricates turned into fricatives, and Velar Palatalization (Phase 2), in which the palatalized velars turned into affricates. They did not happen...

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Central Kilimanjaro language
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 00:06:19

neutralized, unlike in West Kilimanjaro. Consonants /k, ŋɡ, l/ become palatalized to [kʲ, ŋɡʲ, lʲ] when occurring before the front vowels /i, e/. /w/ appears...

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North coast Portuguese
Kamis, 2026-07-02 23:52:32

not pronounced. Heightening of [e, ẽ] to [i, ĩ] and [o, õ] to [u, ũ]. Palatalization of fricatives [s, z] to [ʃ, ʒ] when adjacent to letters ⟨t⟩ or ⟨d⟩....

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Rhyme
Minggu, 2026-08-09 11:39:59

continuant'. Furthermore, "for perfect rhyme a palatalized consonant may be balanced only by a palatalized consonant and a velarized consonant by a velarized...

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Cornish phonology
Minggu, 2026-06-14 08:30:40

environment were first assibilated (apart from a few early cases of palatalization), then palatalized to *dʒ later, perhaps with *ʒ as an intermediate step. George...

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Joret line
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 22:44:03

preserve Latin /k/ and /ɡ/ before /a/; dialects south and east of it palatalize them. In Old French the result of this palatalisation was /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/...

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Qoph
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 07:20:12

the Arabian peninsula, which shows a strong correlation between the palatalization of ⟨ج⟩ to [d͡ʒ] and the pronunciation of the ⟨ق⟩ as a [ɡ] as shown in...

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Nivkh languages
Minggu, 2026-08-16 14:47:38

dialect. Consonants are palatalized in some contexts, most commonly in younger speakers, where all consonants are palatalized before [i] and [e]. Additionally...

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Czech orthography
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 08:35:31

declension patterns. The letter ⟨ě⟩ is a vestige of Old Czech palatalization. The originally palatalizing phoneme /ě/ [ʲɛ] became extinct, changing to [ɛ] or [jɛ]...

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Low German
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:10:23

instance the palatalization and assibilation of /k/ (compare palatalized forms such as English cheese, Frisian tsiis to non-palatalized forms such as...

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Interslavic
Jumat, 2026-07-03 03:27:58

ľ, ń, ŕ, ś and ź are softened or palatalized counterparts of d, l, n, r, s, t and z. The latter are also palatalized before ě and j, and possibly before...

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Metaphony
Minggu, 2026-04-26 11:07:07

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Ki (kana)
Selasa, 2026-07-14 09:12:31

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Alternation (linguistics)
Rabu, 2025-07-09 05:55:58

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Ě
Kamis, 2026-07-30 05:01:20

Proto-Slavic notation. The letter ě is a vestige of Old-Czech palatalization. The originally-palatalizing phoneme, yat /ě/ [ʲɛ], became extinct and changed to...

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North Teke language
Rabu, 2026-03-25 02:09:15

ᵑkʷ/ can also be heard as [k͡p, ᵑk͡p]. The following sounds can be palatalized as [pʲ, bʲ, kʲ, fʲ, sʲ, t͡sʲ, lʲ, mʲ, ᵐpʲ, ᵐbʲ, ⁿt͡ʃʲ]. Sounds /i, a...

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Bulgarian alphabet
Senin, 2026-08-10 04:18:31

softening (palatalization) of any consonant (except ж, ч, and ш) before the letter о, while ю and я after consonants mark the palatalization of the preceding...

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Adyghe language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:45:53

Natukhai dialect) there exist a palatalized voiced velar stop [ɡʲ], a palatalized voiceless velar stop [kʲ] and a palatalized velar ejective [kʲʼ] that were...

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Pre-Greek substrate
Senin, 2026-07-20 07:49:08

phonology of pre-Greek likely featured a series of both labialized and palatalized consonants, as indicated by Mycenaean inscriptions in Linear B. These...

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Mora (linguistics)
Minggu, 2026-06-28 07:09:24

Japanese writing system that indicates that the preceding consonant is palatalized. The "contracted sound" (拗音) is represented by the three small kana for...

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Prime (symbol)
Senin, 2026-07-13 01:56:59

transliteration of some languages, such as Slavic languages, to denote palatalization. Prime and double prime are used to transliterate Cyrillic yeri (the...

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Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:09:09

p. 515. Szende (1994), p. 91. Gilles & Trouvain (2013), pp. 67–68. Palatalization in Brazilian Portuguese revisited Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback...

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Nasalization
Senin, 2026-07-20 15:59:58

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Middle Chinese finals
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 03:39:28

generally palatalized; with sporadic exceptions. However, in Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Korean only the row-4 finals have such palatalization. Karlgren...

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Ukrainian language
Rabu, 2026-07-01 03:37:20

/ɔ/, /a/. A number of the consonants come in three forms: hard, soft (palatalized) and long, for example, /l/, /lʲ/, and /lː/ or /n/, /nʲ/, and /nː/. The...

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Jju language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:42:07

consonants have a three-way contrast between plain, labialized [ʷ], and palatalized [ʲ]. Aspiration [ʰ] may phonetically occur among stops. Tense stops /kː...

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Arbëresh language
Senin, 2026-07-06 09:37:18

Q The letters ⟨GJ⟩ and ⟨Q⟩ are pronounced as a palatalized voiced velar plosive [ɡʲ] and a palatalized voiceless velar plosive [kʲ], rather than a voiced...

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Teojomulco Chatino
Jumat, 2026-01-02 06:12:55

/kʲ/ is an allophone of /k/ in palatalized environments. /gʲ/ occurs in environments that trigger both palatalization and voicing. Belmar, Francisco (1902)...

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Varieties of French
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 01:37:10

delabialization of the phoneme [ɥ] (which becomes [j]), as well as the palatalization of apico-dental consonants that are followed by the anterior vowels...

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Quiripi language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:41:01

Algonquian */aː/ and */eː/ to /ãː/ and /aː/, respectively, and the palatalization of earlier */k/ before certain front vowels. There appear to have been...

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Yawuru language
Jumat, 2026-01-02 09:16:28

Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar plain palatalized Stop voiceless p t t̠ʲ ʈ k/q voiced b d d̠ʲ ɖ g Nasal m n n̠ʲ ɳ ŋ Approximant lateral l l̠ʲ...

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Ndau language
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 11:06:18

are labialized-whistled sounds as /sᶲʷ, zᵝʷ/. Other palatalized sounds are labialized-palatalized ones as /tʲʷ, rʲʷ/. Other affricate sounds are /p͡sᶲ...

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Yue Chinese
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:18:00

Beijing dialect, have a third sibilant series, formed through a merger of palatalized alveolar sibilants and velars, but this is a recent innovation, which...

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Galician–Portuguese
Kamis, 2026-08-06 11:53:39

northern Portugal and Galicia. 3 In most Brazilian dialects, t and d are palatalized to [tʃ] and [dʒ] before [i,ĩ] (e.g. tio [tʃi.u]). This includes cases...

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Northern Wu phonology
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:09:03

literary ones. Many Northern Wu varieties have sibilants that undergo palatalization (尖團合流 [zh]). This process is becoming more common among younger speakers...

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Indo-European ablaut
Jumat, 2026-07-31 09:07:51

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Ejective consonant
Jumat, 2026-07-24 22:22:29

Nez Perce, Quechua, Sandawe, Tigrinya, Tlingit, isiXhosa, isiZulu) palatalized velar ejective stop [kʲʼ] (in Abaza, Abkhaz, Shapsug, Ubykh) labialized...

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Fluminense Portuguese
Jumat, 2026-07-24 04:29:10

vowel reduction of /e/ and /o/ into /i/ and /u/, stress timing, the palatalization of /s/ and /z/ in the end of syllables into /ʒ/ or /ʃ/ and the abundance...

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Sango language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:02:00

generally CV. Consecutive vowels are rare but do occur. Consonants may be palatalized or labialized, orthographically C⟨i⟩ and C⟨u⟩, respectively. Words are...

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Mercian dialect
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:08:35

Such diacritics include macrons for vowel length and overdots for palatalization. Sound approximations from various European languages have been given...

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Proto-Kabardian language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:26:52

inventory included palatalized velars and postalveolar affricates. Postalveolar affricates: d͡ʒ ⟨дж⟩ t͡ʃ ⟨ч⟩ t͡ʃʼ ⟨чӀ⟩ Palatalized velars: ɡʲ ⟨гь⟩ kʲ...

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Tai Lue language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:21:42

checked syllables, six in open syllables). The initials t͡s- and s- are palatalized before front vowels (which in the language are i, e, and ɛ) and become...

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Venetian language
Kamis, 2026-08-13 10:37:17

For example, Venetian did not undergo vowel rounding or nasalization, palatalize /kt/ and /ks/, or develop rising diphthongs /ei/ and /ou/, and it preserved...

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Tsolyáni language
Rabu, 2025-12-03 07:51:56

h m n ñy nn ng w -y shi zhi ehsse kho gho qü hü mu na nye nnü ngo wu palatalizer /j/ /r̪/ /l̪/ /ɬ/ /ɭ/ /c/~/tʃ/ /ɟ/~/dʒ/ /ts/ /dz/ /tɬ/ /dɮ/ /ˀ/ y r l...

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Relative articulation
Selasa, 2026-05-19 23:52:22

While this is often transcribed as [ʃ], it is not domed (partially palatalized) the way a prototypical [ʃ] is. A more precise transcription is therefore...

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Sabtu, 2026-08-15 06:07:32

[d͡ʒ] without considering it a separate letter. In Lithuanian, dž is palatalized to [dʑ] when followed by e, ę, ė, i, į or y. Letter "Dž" is found in...

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Mao language (India)
Jumat, 2026-06-19 06:56:51

labiodental [ɱ]. /n/ before high vowel sounds can have an allophone of a palatalized [nʲ]. [ə] only occurs inter-morphemically. /ɨ/ can be heard as rounded...

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Secondary articulation
Senin, 2026-08-03 06:18:31

articulated with two overlapping plosive articulations, [k] and [p]. Palatalization is perhaps best known from the Russian "soft" consonants like [tʲ],...

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Adyghe phonology
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:00:14

and Natukhai) there exist a palatalized voiced velar stop [ɡʲ], a palatalized voiceless velar stop [kʲ] and a palatalized velar ejective [kʲʼ] that were...

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Click consonant
Senin, 2026-07-27 01:35:58

found among Bantu languages, and are reconstructed for Proto-Kxʼa. A palatalized click ⟨mqya⟩ [m̩ǃʲa] is provided for by the Mwangwego script for Malawian...

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Voiced dental fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:05:45

Sardinian phonology Scottish Gaelic Lewis Màiri [ˈmaːðʲi] 'Mary' Slightly palatalized. Common Hebridean realisation of /ɾʲ/, standard or even phonemic in Lewis...

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Schleicher's fable
Minggu, 2026-08-16 09:40:45

Hirt introduced the o/e vocalism, syllabic resonants, labiovelars and palatalized velars. Lehmann and Zgusta introduced a few alternative lexemes (the...

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General Chinese
Kamis, 2026-04-30 15:33:57

Palatalization (sound change) § Mandarin Chinese) The alveolar sibilants ⟨z⟩, ⟨ts⟩, ⟨dz⟩, ⟨s⟩, ⟨sz⟩ (Mandarin z, c, s) are also generally palatalized...

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Phonological history of Catalan
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 12:12:20

[paˈsar] "pass". The velars /k/ and /ɡ/ became palatalized before front vowels. by the fourth century, palatalized /ɡ/ had become a palatal approximant /j/...

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Hill Mari language
Kamis, 2026-08-06 15:42:18

i), consonants (except l' and n, which are always palatalized) are pronounced as semi-palatalized. The literary Hill Mari language uses a writing system...

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Moloko language
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 12:23:19

depending on a number of factors: roundedness, labialization (roundedness), palatalization, or closeness to certain consonants. Each phoneme and its corresponding...

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E (Cyrillic)
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 00:17:56

Belarusian represents [je] in initial and postvocalic position or [e] with palatalization of the preceding consonant. This letter closely resembles and should...

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Monophthongization
Minggu, 2026-04-26 12:06:44

Nasalization Tonogenesis Floating tone Assimilation Fusion Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony...

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Yeshua
Minggu, 2026-07-26 06:36:49

reducing the name thus: [jəhoˈʃuaʕ] > [joˈʃuaʕ] > [jeˈʃuaʕ], with the /o/ palatalizing (via dissimilation) before the /ʃ/. Qimron describes the general linguistic...

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Marathi phonology
Jumat, 2026-06-19 07:21:01

unrelated to modern IA ḷ. Palatalization is phonemic for some consonants, but it has not been well studied. Furthermore, palatalization is only denoted for...

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Witch (word)
Jumat, 2026-05-29 07:56:14

basic form would then be the feminine, wicce < *wikkæ < *wikkōn with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ < *ōn in early Ingvaeonic...

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Saka language
Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:01:21

after vowels or *r ḍ also phonetically became ḷ or ṛ in this position. Palatalization of certain consonants: Other than an inscription from Issyk kurgan that...

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Guanzhong dialect
Senin, 2026-04-06 10:38:19

urban center. The urban alveolar plosives /t tʰ/, when followed by /i/, palatalize in some parts of Baqiao District. In Dizhai, the labiodental affricates...

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A with diaeresis and macron (Cyrillic)
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 00:13:49

alphabet of the Kildin Sami language where it represents a lengthened palatalized open front unrounded vowel /ʲaː/. Ǟ ǟ : Latin letter Ǟ Cyrillic characters...

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Voiced bilabial plosive
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:18:05

phonology. Russian бабушка / babushka [ˈbabuʂka] 'fish' Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology Serbo-Croatian биће / biće [bǐːt͡ɕě] 'being'...

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Ludza dialect
Rabu, 2025-09-10 00:06:38

knowledge of the language. All consonants except the glottal stop can be palatalized. Native obstruents are voiced intervocalically. /ɫ/ is pronounced as...

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Classical Arabic
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:06:34

pronunciation. ^3As it derives from Proto-Semitic *g, /ɟ/ may have been a palatalized velar: /ɡʲ/. ^5This is retrospectively reconstructed based on ancient...

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Awjila language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 10:01:11

Example: Awjila: təkəmmušt vs. Tachelhit: taymmust meaning bundle Palatalization of /s/ and /z/ to /ʃ/ (written as š) and /ʒ/ (written as ž) Dominance...

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Cantabrian language
Jumat, 2026-07-10 00:31:42

are both written and pronounced differently. H Palatalization: Cantabrian Dialects do mostly not palatalize Latin L-, however, some vestiges might be found...

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Norwegian dialects
Minggu, 2026-08-09 09:40:27

Norwegian the final [l] is lost, leaving [d]. The same sequence has been palatalized in Northern Norway, leaving the palatal lateral [ʎ]. The second consonant...

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Church Slavonic
Kamis, 2026-06-18 15:38:28

reflect differences between palatalization rules of Ukrainian and Russian (for example, ⟨ч⟩ is always "soft" (palatalized) in Russian pronunciation and...

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Wo (kana)
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 21:52:47

no to so ko o n Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced...

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Voiced palatal nasal
Minggu, 2026-08-16 05:18:27

symbol derives from ⟨n⟩ and ⟨j⟩, ⟨n⟩ for nasality and ⟨j⟩ denoting palatalization. In Spanish and languages whose writing systems are influenced by Spanish...

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West Slavic languages
Kamis, 2026-07-09 11:01:21

centuries), are as follows: Development of Proto-Slavic *tj, *dj into palatalized ts, (d)z, as in modern Polish/Czech/Slovak noc ("night"; compare Russian...

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Er (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:30:05

like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of ⟨r⟩ in "curd" palatalized alveolar trill /rʲ/ The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary...

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Selaru language
Rabu, 2026-05-06 22:28:12

environments. Consonants preceding glide sounds are heard as either palatalized or labialized [ʲ, ʷ]. Selaru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...

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Old High German
Minggu, 2026-07-12 16:13:03

affricate. 10 It is not clear whether Old High German /x/ had acquired a palatalized allophone [ç] after front vowels, as is the case in Modern German. 11...

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Low Alemannic German
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:20:22

obstruents do not occur, as is typical for Upper German dialects. ¹/x/ is palatalized as [ç] after front vowels in the northern varieties (like in Standard...

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Tapayuna language
Kamis, 2026-03-19 02:40:43

possible); this has been attributed to the influence of an underlying palatalizing nonfinite prefix. In Tapayúna, at least two verbs still follow the archaic...

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Western Mansi
Minggu, 2026-07-26 14:54:56

Western Mansi consonants Labial Alveolar (Alveolo-) palatal Velar plain palatalized plain labialized Nasals /m/ м /n/ н /nʲ/ нь /ŋ/ ӈ /ŋʷ/ ӈв Stops /p/ п...

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Hungarian dialects
Kamis, 2026-07-02 10:27:13

of words. Consonants are often palatalized (huirnyi instead of standard írni), however, "ly" (originally a palatalized "l" in the dialect from which standard...

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Harvard-Kyoto
Senin, 2026-03-23 20:41:01

Latin letter ⟨c⟩, in Russian called "це" (tse) ч C ch ш S sh щ T tsh palatalized form of English ⟨sh⟩ ъ J - * does not produce a sound virtually disjuncts...

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Albanian morphology
Jumat, 2026-01-30 12:23:57

-a, -e, -onj, -ë, but modification of the stem by final consonant palatalization and/or internal vowel mutation is common. Some nouns, such as ujë "water"...

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Lenition
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 15:18:56

notation [t] > [ts] means that [t] changes to [ts]. The sound change of palatalization sometimes involves lenition. Lenition includes the loss of a feature...

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Burmese alphabet
Minggu, 2026-06-14 13:41:39

bilabial and velar consonants ⟨က⟩ ⟨ခ⟩ ⟨ဂ⟩ ⟨ဃ⟩ ⟨င⟩ ⟨ပ⟩ ⟨ဖ⟩ ⟨ဗ⟩ ⟨မ⟩ ⟨လ⟩ ⟨သ⟩. Palatalizes velar consonants: ⟨ကျ⟩ (ky), ⟨ချ⟩ (hky), ⟨ဂျ⟩ (gy) are pronounced [tɕ]...

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Korean language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 19:15:11

in pronunciation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary. In North Korea, palatalization of /si/ is optional, and /t͡ɕ/ can be pronounced [z] between vowels...

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Ilocano language
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 05:44:32

/paɾ.ja/ 'bitter melon' In addition, dental/alveolar consonants become palatalized before /i/. (See Consonants below). Unstressed /i/ and /u/ are pronounced...

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Labialization
Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:10:51

labio-palatal [ɥ] and labio-velar [w] semivowels, some languages exhibit labio-palatalization [ᶣ], rather than labio-velarization [ʷ]. In Slovene, sounds can be prelabialized...

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Russian dialects
Rabu, 2026-08-12 16:04:35

Russian Unstressed /o/ [o] [ɐ~ə] [a~ɐ~ə~ɨ] Unstressed /e/, /a/, /o/ after palatalized consonants [ɪ], [e] [ɪ] [æ] (pre-stressed), [ɪ] /ɡ/ [ɡ] [ɡ] [ɣ] /v/ [v]...

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West Baltic languages
Jumat, 2026-07-03 17:02:13

features: the diphthong *ei (e.g. deiws 'god', (acc) deinan 'day'), palatalized consonants /kʲ/, /gʲ/ (they are preserved also in the Lithuanian language)...

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Kerek language
Selasa, 2026-06-30 08:09:47

speak Russian. Vowels may be long. Consonants may also be long, /l/ is palatalized [lʲ] intervocalically, and /tʃ/ is pronounced as [s] by some. Kerek is...

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Hamgyŏng dialect
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:25:46

Hamgyŏng low pitch. Vowel length is not phonemic. The Hamgyŏng dialect has palatalized both Middle Korean t(h)i-, t(h)y- and k(h)i-, k(h)y- into c(h)i-, c(h)-...

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Romance plurals
Jumat, 2026-06-26 18:41:15

-AE, but expected if e < -ĀS. (The change AE > e occurred long before palatalization, hence /tʃ/ is expected here too. It is unlikely that this unusual distribution...

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Onogurs
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:03:47

i, ï, and iV, and Vladimir Dybo calls the sound change the "Bulgar palatalization". Denis Sinor believed that the differences noted above suggest that...

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Kansai dialect
Senin, 2026-08-10 16:11:56

in Kansai. When vowels and semivowel /j/ follow /i, e/, they sometimes palatalize with /N/ or /Q/. For example, "好きやねん" /sukija neN/ "I love you" becomes...

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Tera language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:52:52

cook soup'). /a/ and /aː/ tend to be fronted to [æ, æː] when following palatalized consonants. Diphthongs, which have the same length as long vowels, consist...

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Yeyi language
Kamis, 2026-05-28 14:41:47

diphthongized /ɔ/. The glottal stop [ʔ] only occurs between vowels. Palatalized-velar stop consonants /kʲ kʰʲ kʲʼ ɡʲ/ may often be heard as palatal stop...

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Phrygian language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:42:46

/e/ and /i/, especially in initial position, some consonants became palatalized. Furthermore, Kortlandt (1988) presented common sound changes of Thracian...

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Gyfu
Selasa, 2025-12-09 02:05:10

name of the rune likely echoes the rune names ger, ear, ior: due to palatalization in Old English, the original g rune (i.e., the Gyfu rune ⟨ᚷ⟩) could...

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Soft Em
Rabu, 2026-02-25 23:33:26

certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of М҄, denoting a palatalized М. The font DejaVu has the glyph in Cyrillic Extended-B. Cyrillic characters...

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Sertanejo people
Jumat, 2026-08-07 11:12:08

/pɛˈgɐɾi/) Palatalization of the letter T when it comes in the last syllable of some words, but with different rules to the palatalizations that occur...

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Hmu language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:16:58

words exchange s and x. Ai /ɛ/ does not occur after palatalized consonants. /en/ after palatalized consonants is spelled in. Additional diphthongs occur...

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Velar ejective stop
Senin, 2026-02-02 22:04:04

шкӏэ/س̈ڃە/šč̣ʼǎ [ʃkʼa] 'calf' Shapsug кӏьэ / ڃیە / č̣yė [kʲʼa] 'tail' Palatalized. Corresponds to [t͡ʃʼ] in other dialects. Amharic ቀን/ḳän [kʼɜn] 'day'...

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Slovak orthography
Senin, 2026-08-10 03:17:45

pronounced [hɛʁts], with a consonantal /r/). The caron (in Slovak "mäkčeň", "palatalization mark" or "softener") indicates a change of alveolar fricatives, affricates...

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Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 06:57:22

Glagolitic letter Djerv, which had historically represented various palatalized consonants such as /ɡʲ/, /dʲ/, and /dʑ/. The letter Ђ was designed by...

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Yat
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 22:02:00

unstressed syllables. Thus, those Bulgarian dialects that retained their palatalized consonants remained Yakavian in stressed syllables, whereas those that...

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Afroasiatic languages
Kamis, 2026-08-13 04:33:02

and Semitic: it usually affects features such as pharyngealization, palatalization, and labialization. Several Omotic languages have "sibilant harmony"...

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Guttural
Senin, 2026-05-25 06:02:56

very common in various dialects. In Russian, /x/ is assimilated to the palatalization of the following velar consonant: лёгких [ˈlʲɵxʲkʲɪx]. It also has a...

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