A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously
labialized
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 involv ...
and
palatalized. Typically the
roundedness
In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a ''rounded'' vowel is pronounced, the lips form a circular opening, and ''unrounded'' vowels are pro ...
is compressed, like , rather than protruded like . The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet for this
secondary articulation is , a superscript , the symbol for the
labialized palatal approximant
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 invol ...
. If such sounds pattern with other, labialized, consonants, they may instead be transcribed as palatalized consonants plus labialization, , as with the = of
Abkhaz or the = of
Akan Akan may refer to:
People and languages
*Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
*Akan language
Akan () is a Central Tano languages, Central Tano language and the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken ...
.
A voiced labialized palatal approximant occurs in
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language ...
and
French, but elsewhere is uncommon, as it is generally dependent upon the presence of front
rounded vowel
In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a ''rounded'' vowel is pronounced, the lips form a circular opening, and ''unrounded'' vowels are pro ...
s such as and , which are themselves not common. However, a labialized palatal approximant and labio-palatalized consonants appear in some languages without front rounded vowels in the Caucasus and in West Africa, such as Abkhaz, and as
allophone
In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is a set of multiple possible spoken soundsor ''phones''or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, (as in '' ...
s of labialized consonants before , including the at the beginning of the language name ''Twi.'' In Russian, and trigger labialization of any preceding consonant, including palatalized consonants, so that ''нёс'' 'he carried' is phonetically .
Iaai
Iaai (Iaai pronunciation: ) is a language of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia). It shares the island of Ouvéa with Fagauvea, a Polynesian outlier language.
Iaai is the sixth-most-spoken language of New Caledonia, with 4078 speakers as of 2009. It ...
has a
voiceless labialized palatal approximant .
Labial–palatal consonants
Truly co-articulated labial–palatal consonants such as are theoretically possible.
However, the closest sounds attested from the world's languages are the
labial–postalveolar consonants of
Yélî Dnye in New Guinea, which are sometimes transcribed as labial–palatals.
See also
*
Labio-palatal approximant
A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously labialized and palatalized. Typically the roundedness is compressed, like , rather than protruded like . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for this secondary articulation is ...
References
Place of articulation
Assimilation (linguistics)
Secondary articulation
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