¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palatals
1. palatal [n] - See also: palatal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatals
Literary usage of Palatals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"1) The letters c (k, q), g, h (x) represent in OE. both gutturals and palatals.
These were sharply distinguished from each other both ..."
2. Handbook of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1875)
"These are called palatals, the arch, or back of the palate being the most ...
In the formation of the more special palatals (I; and </) the tip of the ..."
3. The Elements of Old English: Elementary Grammar and Reference Grammar by Samuel Moore, Thomas Albert Knott (1919)
"At a period of Prehistoric Old English which was later than the period of breaking,
the vowels ae, ae, and e, when preceded by the initial palatals c,29 g30 ..."
4. Appendix to Bennett's Latin Grammar for Teachers and Advanced Students by Charles Edwin Bennett (1895)
"The palatals were formed further forward in the mouth, and developed in most ...
Examples of the different Gutturals are : palatals : centum, dicere, ..."
5. A Sanskrit Primer: Based on the Leitfaden Für Den Elementar-cursus Des by Edward Delavan Perry, Georg Bühler (1913)
"t becomes Zd, before any initial sonant, except the palatals, the nasals, and <5f
I: thus, 4JV||ct, meghat atra becomes *jy|<^ ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Teutonic Languages: Being at the Same Time a by Jacob Helfenstein (1870)
"As to the pronunciation of these palatals, sz, sth, tz, and tsz, may have sounded
like the English ch in ' church/ dz like g in 'gentleman. ..."
7. Essentials of Public Speaking by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood (1910)
"(3) palatals are consonants formed by the action of the soft palate and tongue
at the back of the mouth, eg g, k, ng. ..."
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