User:BodhiHarp/Post-palatal consonant

Post-palatal, also called retracted palatal, backed palatal, palato-velar, pre-velar, advanced velar or front(ed-)velar are consonants articulated between the position of palatal consonants and velar consonants.^[1][2] Post-palatal consonants are sometimes common and uncommon, for example the voiceless post-palatal plosive occurs in 17 languages, while the voiced post-palatal approximant occurs in 2.

Especially in broad transcription, post-palatal consonants may be transcribed as palatalized velar consonants.

There are also labialized postpalatal consonants, also spelled labialized post-palatal, or called labial–prevelar, which just like post-palatal consonants, are consonants pronounced between labialized palatal consonants and labialized velar consonants.

Also like post-palatal consonants, especially in broad transcription, labialized postpalatal consonants may be transcribed as palatalized labialized (labio-palatalized) velar consonants.

There are also compressed post-palatal consonants, which again just like post-palatal consonants and labialized postpalatal consonants, are consonants pronounced between compressed palatal consonants and what compressed velar consonants would be.

And again also like post-palatal and labialized post-palatal consonants, especially in broad transcription, compressed post-palatal consonants may be transcribed as what palatalized compressed velar consonants would be.

IPA chart of post-palatal consonants

The IPA doesn't have dedicated symbols for any post-palatal consonant,^[3] but there are some obsolete IPA symbols, including:

• barred j ⟨ɉ⟩ for the voiced post-palatal approximant^[4]
• barred turned h ⟨𝼾⟩ for the compressed voiced post-palatal approximant [ɥ̈]
• barred w ⟨𝼿⟩ for the protruded voiced post-palatal approximant [ẅ]^[5]

However in the IPA they can be represented by diacritics.

	Post-palatal		Labialized post-palatal		Compressed post-palatal
Nasal		ɲ˗
Plosive	c̠	ɟ˗ ⓘ
Non-sibilant affricate	c͡ç˗
Non-sibilant fricative	ç˗ ⓘ	ʝ˗
Approximant		j˗ ⓘ		j˗ʷ ⓘ		ɥ˗
Lateral fricative	𝼆̠	ʎ̝˗

Voiceless consonants are on the left; voiced consonants are on the right.

See also

• Palatal consonant
• Velar consonant
• Alveolo-palatal consonant
• Postalveolar consonant

References

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyuDAeoKL1I Although this source doesn't directly say this, [j˗] is a voiced post-palatal approximant.
2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prevelar#English
3. Because post-palatal consonants rarely exist as phonemes. https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/1cyim4z/why_isnt_the_j_with_bar_%C9%89_used_for_the/
4. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C9%89
5. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/w%CC%B6