The voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some vocal languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɟ , a barred dotless j that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f . The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\.. If the distinction is necessary, the voiced alveolo-palatal plosive may be …

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of [f]; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in the case of German [x] (the final consonant of Bach); or the side of the tongue against the molars, in the case of Welsh [ɬ] (appearing twice in …

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages. Labialized sounds involve the lips while the remainder of the oral cavity produces another sound. The term is normally restricted to consonants.When vowels involve the lips, they are called rounded.. The most common labialized consonants are labialized velars.Most other labialized sounds also …

In phonetics, palatalization (/ ˌ p æ l ə t ə l aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən /, also US: /-l ɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən /) 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 the letter ʲ to the base consonant.

Coronals are consonants articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue.Among places of articulation, only the coronal consonants can be divided into as many articulation types: apical (using the tip of the tongue), laminal (using the blade of the tongue), domed (with the tongue bunched up), or subapical (using the underside of the tongue) as well as different postalveolar …

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including R , r in the Latin script and Р , p in the Cyrillic script. [citation needed] They are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by upper- or lower-case variants of Roman R , r : r, ɾ, ɹ, ɻ, ʀ, ʁ ...

A fricative consonant is a consonant that is made when you squeeze air through a small hole or gap in your mouth.For example, the gaps between your teeth can make fricative consonants; when these gaps are used, the fricatives are called sibilants.Some examples of sibilants in English are [s], [z], [ʃ], and [ʒ].. English has a fairly large number of fricatives, and it has both …

The International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language.. In the IPA, a pulmonic consonant is a consonant made by obstructing the glottis (the space between the vocal …

Xhosa (/ ˈ k ɔː s ə, ˈ k oʊ s ə /, Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰóːsa]) also isiXhosa as an endonym, is a Nguni language and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 8.2 million people and by another 11 million as a second language in South Africa, mostly in Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng.

Characteristics. The most common type of palatal consonant is the extremely common approximant [j], which ranks as among the ten most common sounds in the world's languages. The nasal [ɲ] is also common, occurring in around 35 percent of the world's languages, in most of which its equivalent obstruent is not the stop [c], but the affricate [].Only a few languages in …

The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.It was part of the consonant inventory of Old English and can still be found in some dialects of English, most notably in Scottish English, e.g. in loch, broch or saugh (willow).. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is x , the Latin letter x.

The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʎ , a rotated lowercase letter y (not to be confused with lowercase lambda, λ ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L.. Many languages that were previously thought to have a palatal lateral …

The sj-sound (Swedish: sj-ljudet [ˈɧêːˌjʉːdɛt]) is a voiceless fricative phoneme found in most dialects of the sound system of Swedish.It has a variety of realisations, whose precise phonetic characterisation is a matter of debate, but which usually feature distinct labialization.The sound is represented in Swedish orthography by a number of spellings, including the digraph sj from ...

A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal (/ k æ ˈ k juː m ɪ n əl /) consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consonants—especially in Indology.. The Latin-derived word retroflex means "bent back"; …