ALVEOLO-PALATAL CONSONANT

In phonetics, 'alveolo-palatal' (or 'alveopalatal') consonants are palatalized 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 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. Alveolo-palatal sibilants can be found in Chinese languages such as Mandarin, Hakka, and Wu, as well as Abkhaz, Polish, Russian, Ubykh, Japanese, Korean, and Serbian. Kinnauri uses alveolo-palatal nasal. The alveolo-palatal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
Xsampa-sslash.png	Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative	Mandarin	小 ('x'iǎo)	['']
Xsampa-zslash.png	Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative	Polish	'zi'oło	['']
	Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate	Serbian	ку'ћ'а (ku'ć'a)	[ku'']
	Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate	Japanese	'j'ishin	['']	earthquake

''Note:'' The table displays only sibilants. In sinological circles symbols for alveolo-palatal stops (), nasals (), and liquids () are used, but they often represent simple palatal or palatalized consonants, and thus are not recognized by the IPA.

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See also

See also

★ Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

★ Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative

★ Place of articulation

★ List of phonetics topics