Voiceless palatal nasal

A voiceless palatal nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are and, which are combinations of the letter for the voiced palatal nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.

Features

Features of a voiceless palatal nasal:

Alveolo-palatal

If distinction is necessary, a voiceless alveolo-palatal nasal may be transcribed as, or / ; these are essentially equivalent, since the contact includes both the blade and body of the tongue. A non-IPA letter can also be used.