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| Characteristics | |
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The most common type of palatal consonant is the extremely common approximant [j], which ranks as overall, among the ten most common sounds in the world's languages. The nasal [ɲ] is also common, occurring in around 35 percent of the world's languages,[1] in most of which its equivalent obstruent is not the plosive [c], but the affricate [t͡ʃ]. Only a few languages in northern Eurasia, the Americas and central Africa contrast palatal plosives with postalveolar affricates - as in Hungarian, Czech, Latvian, Slovak, Turkish and Albanian.
Consonants with other primary articulations may be palatalized, that is, accompanied by the raising of the tongue surface towards the hard palate. For example, English [ʃ] (spelled sh) has such a palatal component, although its primary articulation involves the tip of the tongue and the upper gum (this type of articulation is called palatoalveolar).
In phonology, alveolo-palatal, palatoalveolar and palatovelar consonants are commonly grouped as palatals, since these categories rarely contrast with true palatals. Sometimes palatalized alveolars or dentals can be analyzed in this manner as well.
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| Palatal vs. palatalized vs. sequences with /j/ | |
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It is important to distinguish between true palatal consonants, palatalized consonants, and sequences of a consonant and a /j/. Palatal consonants have their primary articulation toward or in contact with the hard palate, whereas palatalized consonants have a primary articulation in some other area and a secondary articulation involving movement towards the hard palate. Palatal and palatalized consonants are both single phonemes, whereas a sequence of a consonant and /j/ is logically two phonemes.
Some languages have more than one of the above types of consonants, for example:
Irish has both a palatal nasal /ɲ/ and a palatalized alveolar nasal /nʲ/. In fact, some conservative Irish dialects have two palatalized alveolar nasal stops, distinguished as "fortis" (apical and somewhat lengthened) vs. "lenis" (laminal).
Spanish has both a palatal nasal /ɲ/ and a sequence /nj/, distinguished e.g. in uñón /uɲon/ "large nail" (of the finger or toe) vs. unión /unjon/ "union".
Russian has a three-way distinction between palatalized consonants, palatalized consonants followed by /j/, and non-palatalized consonants followed by /j/.
Note that sometimes the term "palatal" is used imprecisely to mean "palatalized". Also, languages that have sequences of consonants and /j/, but no separate palatal or palatalized consonants (e.g. English), will often pronounce the sequence with /j/ as a single palatal or palatalized consonant. This is due to the principle of least effort and is an example of the general phenomenon of coarticulation. (On the other hand, Spanish speakers are very often careful to pronounce /nj/ as two separate sounds to avoid possible confusion with /ɲ/.)
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| Palatal consonant in IPA | |
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The palatal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
IPA
Description
Example
Language
Orthography
IPA
Meaning
palatal nasal
French
agneau
[aɲo]
lamb
voiceless palatal plosive
Hungarian
hattyú
[hɒcːuː]
swan
voiced palatal plosive
Latvian
ģimene
[ɟimene]
family
voiceless palatal fricative
German
nicht
[nɪçt]
not
voiced palatal fricative
Spanish
yema
[ʝema]
egg yolk
palatal approximant
English
yes
[jɛs]
yes
palatal lateral approximant
Italian
gli
[ʎi]
the (masculine plural)
voiced palatal implosive
Swahili
hujambo
[huʄambo]
hello
palatal click
Nǁng
ǂoo
[ǂoo]
man, male
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| Notes | |
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^ Ian Maddieson (with a chapter contributed by Sandra Ferrari Disner); Patterns of sounds; Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-521-26536-3
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| References | |
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Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.
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Labial
Coronal
Dorsal
Radical
Glottal
↓ Manner
Bilabial
Labiodental
Dental
Alveolar
Postalv.
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Pharyngeal
Epiglottal
Glottal
Nasal
m̥
m
ɱ
n̪
n̥
n
n̠
ɳ
ɲ̥
ɲ
ŋ̊
ŋ
ɴ
Plosive
p
b
p̪
b̪
t̪
d̪
t
d
ʈ
ɖ
c
ɟ
k
ɡ
q
ɢ
ʡ
ʔ
Fricative
ɸ
β
f
v
θ
ð
s
z
ʃ
ʒ
ʂ
ʐ
ç
ʝ
x
ɣ
χ
ʁ
ħ
ʕ
ʜ
ʢ
h
ɦ
Approximant
ʋ
ɹ
ɻ
j
ɰ
Trill
ʙ
r
ɽ͡r
ʀ
я *
Flap or tap
ⱱ̟
ⱱ
ɾ
ɽ
ɢ̆
ʡ̯
Lateral Fric.
ɬ
ɮ
ɭ˔̊
ʎ̥˔
ʟ̝̊
ʟ̝
Lateral Appr.
l
ɭ
ʎ
ʟ
Lateral flap
ɺ
ɺ̠
ʎ̯
Non-pulmonic consonants
Clicks
ʘ
ǀ
ǃ
ǂ
ǁ
ʘ̃
ʘ̃ˀ
ʘ͡q
ʘ͡qʼ
Implosives
ɓ
ɗ
ʄ
ᶑ
ɠ
ʛ
Ejectives
pʼ
tʼ
cʼ
ʈʼ
kʼ
qʼ
fʼ
θʼ
sʼ
ɬʼ
xʼ
χʼ
tsʼ
tɬʼ
cʎ̝̥ʼ
tʃʼ
ʈʂʼ
kxʼ
kʟ̝̊ʼ
Affricates
p̪f
b̪v
ts
dz
tʃ
dʒ
tɕ
dʑ
ʈʂ
ɖʐ
tɬ
dɮ
cç
ɟʝ
cʎ̥˔
kʟ̝̊
Co-articulated consonants
Fricatives
ɕ
ʑ
ɧ
Approximants
ʍ
w
ɥ
ɫ
Stops
k͡p
ɡ͡b
ŋ͡m
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Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged to be impossible.
* Symbol not defined in IPA.
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Central
Near-back
Back
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•iy
•ɨʉ
•ɯu
•ɪʏ
•ɪ̈ʊ̈
•ʊ
•eø
•ɘɵ
•ɤo
•e̞ø̞
ə
•ɤ̞o̞
•ɛœ
•ɜɞ
•ʌɔ
•æ
ɐ
•aɶ
•ä
•ɑɒ
Near-close
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