Alveolo-palatal fricative explained

Alveolo-palatal fricatives are a class of consonants in some oral languages. The consonants are sibilants, a variety of fricative. Their place of articulation is postalveolar. They differ in voicing.

The voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative and voiced alveolo-palatal fricative are written (IPA|ɕ) and (IPA|ʑ) in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Features

Features of alveolo-palatal fricatives:^[1]

Examples

IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
pronounced as /ɕ/	Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant	Mandarin	小 (xiǎo)	pronounced as /[]/pronounced as /ɕ/pronounced as /iɑu˨˩˦]/	small
pronounced as /ʑ/	Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant	Polish	zioło	pronounced as /[]/pronounced as /ʑ/pronounced as /ɔwɔ]/	herb

See also

• Alveolo-palatal consonant
• Alveolar consonant
• Palatal consonant

References

1. Book: Brinton, Donna & Laurel J.. The Linguistic Structure of Modern English. John Benjamins Publishing. 2010. 9789027211712. Netherlands. 32, 294.

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