Palatal

/ˈpælətl̩/

Synonyms for "palatal" (134 found)

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Strong matches (40)

dissimilation dorsalepenthetic vowelexplosive flat front glide glossal glottal glottalization guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labialization labiodental labiovelar laryngeal

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lateral lax light lingual liquid lowmanner of articulationmid modification monophthong monophthongal morphophoneme mute muted narrow nasal nasalized occlusive open oxytone

Related words (67)

Noun(6 words)

palatal consonantpalatal soundpalatepalate relatedroof of mouthroof of mouth related

Adjective(3 words)

palatalised palatalized palatine

palatalizedparasitic vowelpeak pharyngeal pharyngealization pharyngealized phone phoneme phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched plosive posttonicprothetic vowelretroflex roundedsegmental phonemesemivowel

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soft sonant sonorityspeech soundstop stopped stressed strong surd syllabicsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllable tense thick throaty tonal tonictransition soundtriphthong twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vocable vocalic vocoid voice voicedvoiced soundvoicelessvoiceless soundvoicing vowel vowellike weak wide

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More general

7 entries

anatomical descriptoranatomical structureconsonantdental termglidephonetic descriptorsemivowel

More specific

11 entries

hard palatepalatal approximantpalatal archpalatal consonantpalatal expanderpalatal fricativepalatal mucosapalatal nasalpalatal platepalatal surfacesoft palate

Collocations

8 entries

hard palatepalatal archpalatal consonantpalatal expansionpalatal mucosapalatal regionpalatal surfacesoft palate

Inflections

3 entries

more palatalmost palatalpalatals

Derivations

6 entries

palatalization palatalize palatalized palatalizes palatalizing palatally

similar

1 entries

soft

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In English, consonantal Y is a palatal approximant.

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