Voiced palatal plosive
A voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is, a barred dotless that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter.
If a distinction is necessary, a voiced alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed or (advanced, depending on the linguistic analysis of that sound. There is also a para-IPA letter that is used primarily in Sinological phonetic notation.
is a less common sound worldwide than the voiced postalveolar affricate because it is difficult to get the tongue to touch just the hard palate without also touching the back part of the alveolar ridge.
It is common for the symbol to be used to transcribe a palatalized voiced velar plosive or, as often in the Indo-Aryan languages, a postalveolar affricate - especially in phonemic notation. The latter may be appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified but the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive, or simply for a cleaner transcription.
Features
Features of a voiced palatal stop:- * Alveolo-palatal variant is articulated also with the blade of the tongue at or behind the alveolar ridge.
Occurrence
Palatal or alveolo-palatal
Post-palatal
There is also a voiced post-palatal or pre-velar plosive in some languages, which is articulated slightly more back than the place of articulation of the prototypical palatal consonant but not as back as the prototypical velar consonant. The IPA does not have a separate symbol, which can be transcribed as, ,, or .Especially in broad transcription, a voiced post-palatal plosive may be transcribed as a palatalized voiced velar plosive.