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In phonetics and phonology, a palatal stop is a type of consonantal sound, made with the body of the tongue in contact with the hard palate (hence palatal), held tightly enough to block the passage of air (hence a stop consonant). A stop consonant made with the tip of the tongue curled back against the palate is called a retroflex stop.

Palatal stops are less common than velar stops or alveolar stops and do not occur in English. However, they are somewhat similar to the English postalveolar affricates [tʃ] and [dʒ], as in chat and jet, and occur in various European languages, such as Hungarian, Icelandic, and Irish.

The term "palatal stop" is sometimes used imprecisely to refer to postalveolar affricates, which themselves come in numerous varieties, or to other acoustically similar sounds, such as palatalized velar stops.

The most common sound is the voiced nasal [ ɲ]. More generally, several kinds are distinguished:

  • [c], voiceless palatal plosive
  • [ ɟ], voiced palatal plosive
  • [ ɲ], voiced palatal nasal
  • [ ɲ̥], voiceless palatal nasal
  • [cʼ], palatal ejective (fairly rare)
  • [ ʄ ], voiced palatal implosive (fairly rare)
  • [ ʄ̥ ] or [cʼ↓] voiceless palatal implosive (very rare)

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Palatal stop

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phonology, a palatal stop is a type of consonantal sound, made with the body of the tongue in contact with the hard palate (hence palatal), held tightly...

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Voiceless palatal plosive

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The voiceless palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in some vocal languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

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Voiced palatal plosive

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The voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Palatal consonant

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not the stop [c], but the affricate [t͡ʃ]. Only a few languages in northern Eurasia, the Americas and central Africa contrast palatal stops with postalveolar...

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Palatal ejective stop

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that represents this sound is ⟨cʼ⟩. Some of the features of the palatal ejective stop are: Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is...

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Voiced palatal nasal

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The voiced palatal nasal is a type of consonant used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

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Ejective consonant

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ejective stop [tʷʼ] (in Abkhaz, Adyghe, Ubykh) labial–velar ejective stop [tpʼ] (in Abkhaz, Ubykh) retroflex ejective stop [ʈʼ] (in Gwich’in) palatal ejective...

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Voiced palatal implosive

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turning the type for a lowercase letter f (the symbol for the voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives). A very similar-looking...

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Palatal obturator

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A palatal obturator is a prosthesis that totally occludes an opening such as an oronasal fistula (in the roof of the mouth). They are similar to dental...

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Icelandic orthography

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if there are more than one (CVCCV), counting geminates and pre-aspirated stops as CC, the vowel is short. There are, however, some exceptions to this rule:...

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Basque language

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Likewise, in Goizueta Basque, tt is a voiceless palatal stop [c] and the corresponding voiced palatal stop, [ɟ], is absent except as an allophone of /j/...

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Click consonant

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mutate into a velar stop or affricate, such as [k], [ɡ], [ŋ], [k͡x]; palatal clicks ([ǂ] etc.) tend to mutate into a palatal stop such as [c], [ ɟ], [ ɲ]...

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Voiced palatal lateral approximant

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The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Hungarian phonology

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It is debated whether the palatal consonant pair consists of stops or affricates. They are considered affricates or stops, depending on register, by...

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Dotless J

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I J ɟ (dotless j with stroke, an IPA letter representing the voiced palatal stop) Dotted J https://web.archive.org/web/20160308192739/http://www.reocities...

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Icelandic phonology

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The velars and alternating palatals are distributed as follows: Initially or at beginning of syllable: Only the four stops [kʰ k cʰ c] can appear. After...

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Claudian letters

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and should not be confused with the IPA symbol ɟ representing a voiced palatal stop. The letters are encoded as follows: Chinese characters of Empress Wu...

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Voiced palatal approximant

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The voiced palatal approximant, or yod, is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Voiceless palatal fricative

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The voiceless palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Warlpiri language

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The palatal stop is written j. Other palatals are written with digraphs formed by suffixing y to the usual alveolar symbol: ny, ly. The palatal approximant...

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Diphthong

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unpluralized [ˈtronʲc]). Diphthongization compensates for the loss of the palatal stop (part of Catalan's segment loss compensation). There are other cases...

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Cyrillic alphabets

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/d͡z/. Dje (Ђ ђ) is replaced by Gje (Ѓ ѓ), which represents /ɟ/ (voiced palatal stop). In some dialects, it represents /d͡ʑ/ instead, like Dje. It is written...

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Retroflex stop

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contact with the hard palate is called a palatal stop. Retroflex stops are less common than velar stops or alveolar stops and do not occur in English. They sound...

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Voiceless velar plosive

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the prototypical velar plosive, though not as front as the prototypical palatal plosive. Conversely, some languages have the voiceless post-velar plosive...

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Yeyi language

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glottal stop sound [ʔ] can also occur, but only between vowels. Palatalized-velar stop consonants /kʲ kʰʲ kʲʼ ɡʲ/ may often be heard as palatal stop consonants...

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