The voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of

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al sound in some vocal languages. The symbol in the

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that represents this sound is , a barred dotless that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter . The equivalent

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symbol is J\. If the distinction is necessary, the voiced alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed , (both symbols denote an advanced ) or ( retracted and palatalized ), but they are essentially equivalent since the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are J\_+ and d_-' or d_-_j, respectively. There is also a non-IPA letter ("d" with the curl found in the symbols for alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives ), used especially in Sinological circles. is a less common sound worldwide than the

voiced postalveolar affricate The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication, spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the In ...

because it is difficult to get the tongue to touch just the hard palate without also touching the back part of the

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. It is also common for the symbol to be used to represent a palatalized voiced velar plosive or palato-alveolar/alveolo-palatal affricates, as in Indic languages. That may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified, and the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive. There is also the voiced post-palatal plosiveInstead of "post-palatal", it can be called "retracted palatal", "backed palatal", "palato-velar", "pre-velar", "advanced velar", "fronted velar" or "front-velar". For simplicity, this article uses only the term "post-palatal". in some languages, which is articulated slightly more back than the place of articulation of the prototypical palatal consonant but not as back as the prototypical

velar consonant Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum). Since the velar region of the roof of the mouth is relatively extensive an ...

. The IPA does not have a separate symbol, which can be transcribed as , (both symbols denote a retracted ), or (both symbols denote an advanced ). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are J\_- and g_+, respectively. Especially in

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, the voiced post-palatal plosive may be transcribed as a palatalized voiced velar plosive ( in the IPA, g' or g_j in X-SAMPA).

Features

Features of the voiced palatal stop: ** The otherwise identical post-palatal variant is articulated slightly behind the hard palate, making it sound closer to the velar . **

Alveolo-palatal In phonetics, alveolo-palatal (or alveopalatal) consonants, sometimes synonymous with pre-palatal consonants, are intermediate in articulation between the coronal and dorsal consonants, or which have simultaneous alveolar and palatal articul ...

variant is articulated also with the blade of the tongue at or behind the

Occurrence

Palatal or alveolo-palatal

Post-palatal

Notes

References

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External links

* {{IPA navigation Palatal consonants Plosives Central consonants Voiced oral consonants Pulmonic consonants