palatalization

Also known as palatization, palatalisation, palatisation

way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate

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Unicode hex: U+02B2

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IPA transcription: ʲ

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In phonetics, palatalization (/ˌpælətəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ , US also /-lɪ-/) or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate. Consonants pronounced this way are said to be palatalized and are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by affixing a superscript j, ⟨ʲ⟩, to the base letter. Palatalization is not phonemic in English, but it is in Slavic languages such as Russian and Bulgarian; Uralic languages such as Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Enets and Mansi; Northwest Caucasian languages such as Abkhaz; and other various languages such as Irish, Lithuanian, Marshallese and Kashmiri.

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