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The palatal nasal is a type of Consonant , used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J. The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter ''n'' with a leftward-pointing tail protruding from the bottom of the left stem of the letter. Compare n and . The symbol should not be confused with , the symbol for the Retroflex Nasal , which has a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem or with , the symbol for the Velar Nasal , which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem. Features Features of the palatal nasal:
In English In some dialects of English , the sequence /nj/ is sometimes realized as the palatal nasal plus a offglide, via coalescence, a type of Assimilation . For example, ''onion'' might be realized as or ''canyon'' might be realized as . However, there are no Minimal Pair s for [nj and , so the palatal nasal is not a separate Phoneme in English. In other languages Romance languages A combination of the palatal nasal with a {Link without Title} -like offglide is fairly common in Romance Languages : Catalan Catalan has or perhaps as a phoneme, and it is denoted by French French has or perhaps as a phoneme, and it is denoted by IstroRomanian IstroRomanian has or perhaps as a phoneme, and it is denoted by <ń>. Italian Italian has or perhaps as a phoneme, and it is denoted by Portuguese Portuguese has as a phoneme, and it is denoted by Spanish Spanish has the palatal nasal as a phoneme in many dialects, and this is denoted by <ñ>, as in ''mañana'' (morning). However, in Mexico <ñ> is a Palatalized Alveolar Nasal , . The difference is this: a true palatal is pronounced with contact between the middle of the tongue and the palate. The front of the tongue is not involved. In a palatalized alveolar (or dental), it is the front of the tongue that makes the contact, as in but the middle of the tongue is simultaneously raised toward the palate, as in [j . That is, is pronounced like a simultaneous and [j , while or perhaps is palatal, though it may have a [j]-like offglide. Finnish The Eastern dialects of Finnish , but not the standard language, retain the feature of Palatalization , and the palatal nasal is the palatalized version of /n/. When the palatal nasal is in the position where standard Finnish would use Hungarian Hungarian has as a phoneme, and it is denoted by Slavic languages This sound also occurs in Slavic Languages , for example in Russian and Belarusian нь, Polish '''ń''', Croatian '''nj''', and Slovak and Czech '''ň'''. In Czech and Slovak, it is also pronounced in ni '''ní''' [ and in Czech '''ně''' and Slovak '''ne''' - both pronounced as []. In Polish, it is also pronounced in ni '''nia''' [ , '''nie''' '''nio''' [ and '''niu''' []. Latvian This sound is written like ''Ņ ņ''. Vietnamese Vietnamese has as a phoneme, and it is denoted by See also |