ADJECTIVE
- produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
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relating to or lying near the palate
palatal index
the palatine tonsils
NOUN
- a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
How To Use palatal In A Sentence
- Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels.
- Nostraticists, working with the flawed palatalized model of yore, were in effect sent down a wild goose chase for a very long time. The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop")
- It is commonly a relic of a velar or palatal fricative that is preserved as a velar fricative.
- Modern Portuguese is characterized by an abundance of sibilant and palatal consonants and a broad spectrum of vowel sounds.
- Lesions may also affect the palate, pharynx, and larynx, causing palatal dysfunction, dysphagia, dysphonia, and aspiration.
- Modern Portuguese is characterized by an abundance of sibilant and palatal consonants and a broad spectrum of vowel sounds (five nasal phonemes and eight to ten oral ones).
- His spelling of tree and leg shows that the Proto-Athabaskan velars had not yet become palatal affricates, as they soon thereafter did.
- Toothbrushing lasted for approximately five minutes after each meal and included brushing the teeth, the dorsum of the tongue, and the palatal and mandibular mucosa.
- Similarly, the voiceless velar or palatal fricative of OE (as in German ach and ich) continued in use for most of the period in England and continues to the present day in Scots.
- My phonology isn't much different in Mid IE than in PIE, save for the addition of labialized dental stops and sibilants and the absence of a phonemic plain/uvular contrast or palatal/plain for you traditionalists out there. Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
