The palatal nasal occurs allophonically before other palatal consonants; otherwise, it occurs only in a small set of 2nd-person singular morphemes.
22.
For example, the distinction between alveolo-palatal consonants is only made by the elderly while the younger generations do not normally distinguish them.
23.
Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Vol . 9, 2 : 5-15 . ( Palatal Consonants as Phonological Geminates in Brazilian Portuguese)
24.
The palato-alveolar and alveolo-palatal subtypes are commonly counted as " palatals " in phonology since they rarely contrast with true palatal consonants.
25.
Nuristani shares with Iranian the merger of the plain and breathy voiced consonants, and the fronting of the Proto-Indo-Iranian primary palatal consonants.
26.
For example, the alveolo-palatal consonants are sometimes characterized as a primary articulation of their own and sometimes as palatalization of postalveolar fricatives, or.
27.
The digraphs " lh " and " nh ", of Occitan origin, denote palatal consonants that do not exist in English.
28.
Unstressed is realized as a near-close, near-front when adjacent to a palatal consonant, e . g . ('pike').
29.
In Polish and Bulgarian, however, many researchers treat some or all paired palatalized consonants as underlying sequences of non-palatal consonant + / j /.
30.
From the perspective of primary places of articulation, this includes all of the laryngeal consonants and some of the dorsal consonants ( specifically, excluding palatal consonants ).
