A voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a barred dotless that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter (i.e. ).

If a distinction is necessary, a voiced alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed (retracted and palatalized ) or (advanced ), depending on the linguistic analysis of that sound. There is also a para-IPA letter that is used primarily in Sinological phonetic notation.

is a less common sound worldwide than the voiced postalveolar affricate because it is difficult to get the tongue to touch just the hard palate without also touching the back part of the alveolar ridge.

It is common for the symbol to be used to transcribe a palatalized voiced velar plosive or, as often in the Indo-Aryan languages, a postalveolar affricate – especially in phonemic notation. The latter may be appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified but the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive, or simply for a cleaner transcription.

Features

Features of a voiced palatal stop:

Alveolo-palatal variant is articulated also with the blade of the tongue at or behind the alveolar ridge.

Occurrence

Palatal or alveolo-palatal

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Albanian 'tongue' Merged with in Gheg Albanian and some speakers of Tosk Albanian. Arabic Some Northern Yemeni dialects 'camel' Corresponds to in other varieties. See Arabic phonology Rural and some urban Sudanese speakers Upper Egypt Aramaic some Urmian & Koine speakers /gavrɑ 'husband' or 'man' lit. (male) person Corresponds to or in other dialects. some Northern speakers Azerbaijani گۆنش/ 'sun'Basque'doll' Breton Gwenedeg 'white' Realization of /ɡ/ before front vowels. Bulgarian 'swamp' Palatalized [g] in Standard Bulgarian, may also be realized as [ɡj] by some speakers. See Bulgarian phonology Catalan Mallorcan 'chalk' Corresponds to in other varieties. See Catalan phonology Corsican 'to watch' Czech 'to divide' Alveolo-palatal. See Czech phonology Dinka 'blunt' Ega 'become numerous' Friulian 'cat' Ganda jjajja 'grandfather' Hausa gyara 'repair' Hungarian 'guardian' See Hungarian phonology Irish 'Irish language' See Irish phonology Latvian 'family' See Latvian phonologyLivoniankīņḑõl'candle' Macedonian 'birth' See Macedonian phonologyMalayKelantan-Pattaniتراجڠ/terajang'kick'See Kelantan-Pattani MalayMunji'lost' Norwegian Central 'godparent' See Norwegian phonology Northern Occitan Auvergnat 'said' (3rd pers. sing.) See Occitan phonology Limousin dissèt Pannonian Rusyn 'Đurđevo' Only occurs in loanwords; Old Slovak ď becomes дз in native inherits. Pitjantjatjara See Pitjantjatjara dialect Sicilian 'job, task' Slovak 'far' Alveolo-palatal. See Slovak phonology Spanish ya 'already' Realization of , may also be realized as in onset or after nasal consonant. See Spanish phonologymalla'net'Intervocalic allophonic realization of the above. Turkish 'sun' See Turkish phonology Vietnamese North-central dialect 'skin' See Vietnamese phonologyWuTaizhou dialect共/gion6'together'

Post-palatal

There is also a voiced post-palatal or pre-velar plosive in some languages, which is articulated slightly more back than the place of articulation of the prototypical palatal consonant but not as back as the prototypical velar consonant. The IPA does not have a separate symbol for that sound, which can be transcribed as , (both symbols denote a retracted ), , (both symbols denote an advanced ), or (palatalized , though this is more ambiguous than the others; see below).

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Catalan 'chalk' Allophone of before front vowels when not preceded by a vowel. See Catalan phonology English geese 'geese' Allophone of before front vowels and . See English phonology Greek 'transfusion' Post-palatal. See Modern Greek phonology Italian Standard 'acorn' Post-palatal; allophone of before . See Italian phonology Japanese / 'silver' Portuguese 'little buddy' Allophone of before front vowels. See Portuguese phonology Romanian 'thorn' Both an allophone of before and the phonetic realization of . See Romanian phonology Russian Standard / 'coat of arms' Typically transcribed in IPA with . See Russian phonology Spanish 'guidebook' Allophone of before front vowels when not preceded by a vowel. See Spanish phonology Yanyuwa 'sacred' Contrasts plain and prenasalized versions.

See also Index of phonetics articles

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