Palatals

Word PALATALS
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Palatals"

What do we mean by palatals?

A palatal consonant.

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The word "palatals" in example sentences

You've got uvulars and velars instead of velars and palatals, which makes sense, but I'm not sure how the rest of your plosives line up with the traditional accounts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the man's reply was a jumbled confusion of palatals lost on the wind. ❋ Charteris, Leslie, 1907- (1983)

He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

He means that they have no sounds in their language unknown to European organs of speech, all being either palatals or dentals of labials. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Young children habitually confuse dentals and palatals, thus a child may be heard to say that he has "dot a told." ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

In the _Plesiometacarpi_ this vertical plate is not sufficiently developed to reach the horizontal plate of the palatals. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The first cranial peculiarity is that in _Telemetacarpi_, as a rule, the vertical plate developed from the lower surface of the vomer is prolonged sufficiently downwards and backwards to become anchylosed to the horizontal plate of the palatals, forming a septum completely dividing the nasal cavity into two chambers. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The Limboo language is totally different from the Lepcha; with less of the _z_ in it, and more labials and palatals, hence more pleasing. ❋ Unknown (1864)

He then asked me to pick out the vowels, the consonants, the flats, the sharps, the aspirates, the labials, the palatals, the dentals, and the mutes. ❋ George Dunderdale (1862)

Some of my voyageurs laughed outright to hear the Sioux language spoken, the sound of its frequent palatals falling very flat on men's ears accustomed only to the Algonquin. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

The extra syllable in "fishes" is inserted because in English, [sic] we don't like pronouncing two palatals in direct sequence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The extra syllable in "fishes" is inserted because in English, we don't like pronouncing two palatals in direct sequence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

ingoorroongoorribina ng, oo, rr are digraphs in Bardi; rn, rl and rd are used for retroflexes; ny, ly for palatals. ❋ Unknown (2004)

_tongue_ in contact with the _teeth_, the palatals between the tongue and hard and soft _palate_. ❋ Elmer W. Cavins (N/A)

Unfortunately, it has not – apart from the Radio 4 newsreaders (and not all of them!) and newsreaders on other networks (Radios 2 & 3 and World Service principally), most BBC broadcasters persist in using the palato-alveolar fricative (see my post ‘Fricative or Affricate’, and also John Maidment’s blog recently on Chinese alveolo-palatals). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Quenya, which possessed besides the calmatéma both a palatal series (tyelpetéma) and labialised series (quessetéma), the palatals were represented by a Fëanorian diacritic denoting ‘following y‘ (usually two underposed dots), while Series IV was a kw-series. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

"zeytin" → "deytin" "sakız" → "takız"  Fronting: Back consonants (velars and palatals) are replaced with ones that are articulated further forward in the mouth, usually alveolars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A, H, CH, O) formed and constructed; in the circuit of His (mouth) are they condensed (into the palatals G, I, K, Q). ( ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

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