Alveolo-palatal Consonant Information

In phonetics, alveolo-palatal (or alveopalatal) consonants are palatalized postalveolar sounds, usually fricatives and affricates, articulated with the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge, and the body of the tongue raised toward the palate. The alveolo-palatal fricatives are similar to palato-alveolar and retroflex fricatives, but are laminal rather than apical or sub-apical as the retroflex fricatives are, and are more fully palatalized than the "domed" palato-alveolar fricatives are.

The alveolo-palatal sibilants are often used in the Chinese languages such as Mandarin, Hakka, and Wu, as well as other languages in the East Asian sprachbund, such as Japanese and Korean. Alveolo-palatal sibilants are also a feature of many Slavic languages, such as Polish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian, and of Northwest Caucasian languages, such as Abkhaz and Ubykh. Kinnauri uses an alveolo-palatal nasal. The alveolo-palatal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

The above table displays only sibilants. In sinological circles symbols for alveolo-palatal stops (ȶ, ȡ), nasals (ȵ), and liquids (ȴ) are used, but they often represent simple palatal or palatalized consonants, and thus are not recognized by the IPA. The Polish nasal represented with the letter ń is considered to be alveolo-palatal rather than palatal. Also the "palatal" consonants of several Indigenous Australian languages are also sometimes judged closer to alveolo-palatal in their articulation.

See also

• Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
• Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
• Place of articulation
• Hush consonant
• List of phonetics topics

References

• Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.

Categories:

• Postalveolar consonants

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See Also:

• Consonant Cluster
• Consonant Mutation
• Consonant Shift
• Postalveolar Consonant