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Alveolo-palatal consonant
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{{Place of articulation}}
Image:Alveolopalatal fricative.png thumb|left|Sagittal section of alveolo-palatal fricative
In
phonetics, '''alveolo-palatal''' (or '''alveopalatal''')
consonants are
palatalization palatalized postalveolar consonant postalveolar fricatives, articulated with the blade of the
tongue behind the
alveolar ridge, and the body of the tongue raised toward the
palate. They are similar to
palato-alveolar consonant palato-alveolar and
retroflex consonants retroflex fricatives, but are
laminal consonant laminal rather than
apical consonant apical or
sub-apical consonant sub-apical as the retroflex fricatives are, and are more fully palatalized than the "domed" palato-alveolar fricatives are. Alveolo-palatal consonants can be found in Chinese languages such as
Mandarin (linguistics) Mandarin,
Hakka (linguistics) Hakka, and
Wu (linguistics) Wu, as well as
Abkhaz language Abkhaz,
Polish language Polish,
Ubykh language Ubykh,
Japanese language Japanese,
Korean language Korean, and
Kinnauri language Kinnauri. The alveolo-palatal consonants in the
International Phonetic Alphabet are:
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! rowspan="2" | IPA
! rowspan="2" | Description
! colspan="4" | Example
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! Language
! Orthography
! IPA
! Meaning
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Image:Xsampa-sslash.png
|
Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
|
Mandarin (linguistics) Mandarin
| 小 (
'''x'''iǎo)
| [
'''{{IPA|ɕ}}'''{{IPA|iɑu˨˩˦}}]
|
wiktionary:small small
|-
!
Image:Xsampa-zslash.png
|
Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
|
Hungarian language Hungarian
|
'''zs'''eb
| [
'''{{IPA|ʑ}}'''{{IPA|ɛb}}]
|
wiktionary:pocket pocket
|}
''Note:'' The table displays only fricatives.
Affricates ({{IPA.html">Sinology
sinological_circles symbols for alveolo-palatal stops ({{IPA|ȶ, ȡ}}),
nasal consonant nasals ({{IPA|ȵ}}), and
liquid consonants liquids ({{IPA|ȴ}}) are used, but they often represent simple palatal or palatalized consonants, and thus are not recognized by the IPA.
See also
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{{consonants}}
Category:Consonants
ar:غاري لثوي
fr:Consonne alvéolo-palatale
ko:치조구개�
he:עיצורי×? מכתשיי×? ×—×›×™×™×?
ja:æ¯èŒŽç¡¬å?£è“‹éŸ³
ro:Consoană alveolopalatală
sv:Alveolopalatal konsonant
zh:龈è…音
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