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{{Short description|Type of secondary articular language}}
{{Infobox IPA
| above = Labio-palatalized
| ipa symbol   = ◌ᶣ
| ipa symbol2  = ◌ʲʷ
}}
A '''labio-palatalized''' sound is one that is simultaneously [[labialization|labialized]] and [[Palatalization (phonetics)|palatalized]]. Typically the [[roundedness]] is compressed, like {{IPA|[y]}}, rather than protruded like {{IPA|[u]}}. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] for this [[secondary articulation]] is {{angbr IPA|ᶣ}}, a superscript {{angbr IPA|ɥ}}, the symbol for the [[labialized palatal approximant]]. If such sounds pattern with other, labialized, consonants, they may instead be transcribed as palatalized consonants plus labialization, {{angbr IPA|ʷ}}, as with the {{IPA|[sʲʷ]}} = {{IPA|[sᶣ]}} of [[Abkhaz language|Abkhaz]] or the {{IPA|[nʲʷ]}} = {{IPA|[nᶣ]}} of [[Akan language|Akan]].

A voiced labialized palatal approximant {{IPA|[ɥ]}} occurs in [[Mandarin Chinese]] and [[French language|French]], but elsewhere is uncommon, as it is generally dependent upon the presence of front [[rounded vowel]]s such as {{IPAblink|ø}} and {{IPAblink|y}}, which are themselves not common.<ref>{{cite book |last=Maddieson |first=Ian |title=Patterns of Sounds |series=Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication |page=95 |isbn=0-521-26536-3 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1984}}</ref> However, a labialized palatal approximant and labio-palatalized consonants appear in some languages without front rounded vowels in the Caucasus and in West Africa,<ref>{{cite book |last=Maddieson |first=Ian |title=Patterns of Sounds |pages=92, 292 |year=1984}}</ref> such as Abkhaz, and as [[allophone]]s of labialized consonants before {{IPA|/i/}}, including the {{IPA|[tsᶣ]}} at the beginning of the language name ''Twi.'' In Russian, {{IPA|/o/}} and {{IPA|/u/}} trigger labialization of any preceding consonant, including palatalized consonants, so that ''нёс'' 'he carried' is phonetically {{IPA|[nᶣɵs]}}.

[[Iaai language|Iaai]] has a [[voiceless labialized palatal approximant]] {{IPA|/ɥ̊/}}.

==Labial–palatal consonants==

Truly co-articulated '''labial–palatal consonants''' such as {{IPA|[p͡c, b͡ɟ, m͡ɲ]}} are theoretically possible.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/featgeom/howe-segphon-book.pdf |title=Segmental phonology |pages=7–8 |first=Darin |last=Howe |year=2003 |publisher=University of Calgary}}</ref> However, the closest sounds attested from the world's languages are the [[Labial–alveolar consonant|labial–postalveolar consonants]] of [[Yélî Dnye language|Yélî Dnye]] in New Guinea, which are sometimes transcribed as labial–palatals.

==See also==
*[[Labialized palatal approximant|Labio-palatal approximant]]

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