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Voiceless palatal fricative
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The voiceless palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is C. The symbol ç is the letter c with a cedilla, as used to spell French words like façade, although the sound represented by the letter ç in either French or English orthography is not a voiceless palatal fricative but , the voiceless alveolar fricative.
Palatal fricatives are rare phonemes and only 5% of the world's languages have as a phoneme. However, it also tends to occur as an allophone of or in the vicinity of front vowels, and many English dialects are no exception.
FeaturesFeatures of the voiceless palatal fricative:
See also
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