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- facing or relating to palate: occurring at, facing, or relating to the palate
- pronounced with tongue at palate: describes a consonant sound that is produced by raising the tongue to or near the hard palate
- pronounced with tongue forward: describes a vowel sound that is produced with the tongue moved...

	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Palatal consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth). Voiceless palatal fricative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The voiceless palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ç ... palatal - definition of palatal by the Free Online Dictionary ... pal·a·tal (p l-t l) adj. 1. Of or relating to the palate. 2. Linguistics. a. Produced with the front of the tongue near or against the hard palate, as the (y) in English young ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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