Draft:Post-palatal consonant

voiced post-palatal nasal
ɲ˗

Voiceless post-palatal plosive
c̠

Voiced post-palatal plosive
ɟ˗

Voiceless post-palatal affricate
c͡ç˗

Voiceless post-palatal fricative
ç˗

Voiced post-palatal fricative
ʝ˗

Voiced post-palatal approximant
j˗
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Voiced labialized post-palatal approximant
ɥ˗

voiceless Pre-velar lateral fricative
𝼄̟

Voiced post-palatal lateral fricative
ʎ̝˗

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. 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, but palatalized velars, in theory have a slightly wider place of articulation than postpalatals.

The corresponding term in vowels is central. For example: The close central unrounded vowel is the vocalic equivalent of the voiced post-palatal approximant.

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 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.

compressed post-palatal approximant can be transcribed as ɥ̈~j̈ᵝ~ɥ͍̈

Post-palatal and Labialized postpalatal consonants in the IPA

Although the IPA does not have dedicated symbols for any post-palatal or labialized postpalatal consonants (because post-palatal consonants rarely exist as phonemes ), except the obsolete IPA symbols barred j ⟨ɉ⟩ for the voiced post-palatal approximant, barred turned h ⟨𝼾⟩ for the compressed voiced post-palatal approximant [ɥ̈] and barred w ⟨𝼿⟩ for the protruded voiced post-palatal approximant [ẅ] , they can be represented by diacritics. The ~ (tilde) symbol placed between the actual symbols denotes it can be represented by any of the symbols.

	Post-palatal	Labialized post-palatal
Nasal	ɲ˗~ŋ˖
Plosive	c̠~k̟~kʲ ɟ˗~ɡ˖~ɡʲ
Affricate	c͡ç˗~k̟͡x̟~k͡xʲ
Fricative	ç˗~x̟~xʲ ʝ˗~ɣ˖~ɣʲ
Approximant	j˗~ɰ˖~ȷ̈~ɨ̯	ɥ˗~ɥ̈~w̟~ẅ~j̈ʷ~ʉ̯~wʲ
Lateral fricative	ʎ̝˗~𝼆̬˗~ʟ̝˖~𝼄̬˖

See also

Postalveolar consonant