A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously
labialized
Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages. Labialized sounds involve the lips while the remainder of the oral cavity produces another sound. The term is normally restricted to consonants. When vowels involve ...
and
palatalized. Typically the
roundedness is compressed, like , rather than protruded like . The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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for this
secondary articulation is , a superscript , the symbol for the
labialized palatal approximant
Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages. Labialized sounds involve the lips while the remainder of the oral cavity produces another sound. The term is normally restricted to consonants. When vowels involv ...
. If such sounds pattern with other, labialized, consonants, they may instead be transcribed as palatalized consonants plus labialization, , as with the = of
Abkhaz or the = of
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People and languages
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.
A voiced labialized palatal approximant occurs in
Mandarin Chinese
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and
French, but elsewhere is uncommon, as it is generally dependent upon the presence of front
rounded vowels such as and , which are themselves not common. However, a labialized palatal approximant and labio-palatalized consonants appear in some languages without front rounded vowels in the Caucasus and in West Africa, such as Abkhaz, and as
allophones of labialized consonants before , including the at the beginning of the language name ''Twi.'' In Russian, and trigger labialization of any preceding consonant, including palatalized consonants, so that ''нёс'' 'he carried' is phonetically .
Iaai has a
voiceless labialized palatal approximant .
Labial–palatal consonants
Truly co-articulated labial–palatal consonants such as are theoretically possible.
However, the closest sounds attested from the world's languages are the
labial–postalveolar consonants of
Yélî Dnye in New Guinea, which are sometimes transcribed as labial–palatals.
See also
*
Labio-palatal approximant
References
Place of articulation
Assimilation (linguistics)
Secondary articulation
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