Synonyms for "palatal" (129 found)

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Closest matches (26)

accentedallophonealveolarapicalapico-alveolarapico-dentalarticulatedarticulationaspirationassimilatedassimilationbackbarytonebilabialbroadcacuminalcentralcerebralcheckchecked

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closeconsonantconsonantalcontinuantdentaldiphthong

Strong matches (39)

dissimilateddissimilationdorsalepenthetic vowelexplosiveflatfrontglideglossalglottalglottalizationgutturalhardheavyhighintonatedlabiallabializationlabiodentallabiovelar

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laryngeallaterallaxlightlingualliquidlowmanner of articulationmidmodificationmonophthongmonophthongalmorphophonememutemutednarrownasalnasalizedocclusive

Related words (64)

openoxytonepalatalisedpalatalizedparasitic vowelpeakpharyngealpharyngealizationpharyngealizedphonephonemephonemicphoneticphonicpitchpitchedplosiveposttonicprothetic vowelretroflex

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roundedsegmental phonemesemivowelsoftsonantsonorityspeech soundstopstoppedstressedstrongsurdsyllabicsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllabletensethickthroatytonaltonictransition soundtriphthongtwangyunaccentedunroundedunstressedvelarvocablevocalicvocoidvoicevoicedvoiced soundvoicelessvoiceless soundvoicingvowelvowellikeweakwide

Adjective(3 words)

palatalisedpalatalizedpalatine

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

2 entries

glidesemivowel

Synonyms

1 entries

palatalised

Related terms

5 entries

hard palatepalatepalaticpalatinesoft palate

derived

54 entries

alveo-palatalalveolo-palatalalveolopalatalalveopalatalantepalatalanteropalatalapicopalatalbasipalatalbuccopalatalethmopalatalglossopalatallabial-palatallabio-palatallabio-palatalisationlabio-palatalisedlabio-palatalization

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derived from

1 entries

palate

has context

3 entries

anatomydentistryphonetics

is a

1 entries

semivowel

related to

7 entries

articulatedconsonanthard palatepalatepalatictoothupper

similar

1 entries

soft

Translations

75 translations across 31 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries

• غَارِيّ adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Armenian

4 entries

• քիմքի adj (pertaining to the palate)
• քմային adj (pertaining to the palate)
• քմային adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• քմային հնչյուն noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Bulgarian

1 entries

• на небцето adj (pertaining to the palate)

Burmese

1 entries

• တာလုဇ adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Catalan

3 entries

• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• palatal noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

• 硬齶 /硬腭 adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• 硬齶的 /硬腭的 adj (pertaining to the palate)
• 硬齶輔音 /硬腭辅音 noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Danish

2 entries

• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• palatallyd noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Finnish

4 entries

• maku adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palataalinen adj ((dentistry) on the side facing the palate)
• palataalinen adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• lakiäänne noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

French

3 entries

• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palatal adj ((dentistry) on the side facing the palate)
• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

German

4 entries

• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• Palatal noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)
• Vordergaumenlaut noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Greek

1 entries

• ουρανικός adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Icelandic

1 entries

• framgómmæltur adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Indonesian

1 entries

• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)

Irish

2 entries

• carballach adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• pailitiúil adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Malay

4 entries

• lelangit adj (pertaining to the palate)
• lelangit adj ((dentistry) on the side facing the palate)
• lelangit adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)

Malayalam

1 entries

• താലവ്യം noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Manx

2 entries

• cleaoil adj (pertaining to the palate)
• cleaoil adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Mongolian

4 entries

• тагнайн adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• ᠲᠠᠩᠨᠠᠶ ᠵᠢᠨ adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• тагнайн гийгүүлэгч noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)
• ᠲᠠᠩᠨᠠᠢ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠭᠡᠢᠢᠭᠦᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Polish

4 entries

• palatalny adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• podniebienny adj (pertaining to the palate)
• podniebienny adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• twardopodniebienny adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Portuguese

3 entries

• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• palatino adj (pertaining to the palate)

Russian

3 entries

• нёбный adj (pertaining to the palate)
• палата́льный adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• палатальный звук noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

• palatach adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Slovene

1 entries

• trdonebnik noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Spanish

3 entries

• palatal adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• palatal noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Swedish

3 entries

• gom adj (pertaining to the palate)
• palatal adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• palatal noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Thai

1 entries

• เสียงเพดานแข็ง noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Turkish

4 entries

• damaksıl adj (pertaining to the palate)
• damaksıl adj ((dentistry) on the side facing the palate)
• damaksıl adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• damaksıl ünsüz noun ((phonetics) palatal consonant)

Ukrainian

3 entries

• палата́льний adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)
• піднебі́нний adj (pertaining to the palate)
• піднебі́нний adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Welsh

2 entries

• taflodol adj (pertaining to the palate)
• taflodol adj ((phonetics) articulated at the hard palate)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In English, consonantal Y is a palatal approximant.

Source: tatoeba (9432725)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.