| Places of articulation |
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• Labial |
| Bilabial |
| Labial-velar |
| Labial-alveolar |
| Labiodental |
| Dentolabial |
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• Bidental |
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• Coronal |
| Linguolabial |
| Interdental |
| Dental |
| Denti-alveolar |
| Alveolar |
| Apical |
| Laminal |
| Subapical |
| Postalveolar |
| Alveolo-palatal |
| Retroflex |
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• Dorsal |
| Palatal |
| Labial-palatal |
| Velar |
| Uvular |
| Uvular-epiglottal |
|
• Radical |
| Pharyngeal |
| Epiglotto-pharyngeal |
| Epiglottal |
|
• Glottal |
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A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously labialized and palatalized. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for this secondary articulation is , a superscript , the symbol for the labial-palatal approximant. If such sounds pattern with other, labialized, consonants, they may instead be transcribed as palatalized consonants plus labialization, , as with the = of Abkhaz or the = of Twi.
The labial-palatal approximant occurs in Mandarin Chinese and French, but is uncommon, as it is generally dependent upon the presence of front rounded vowels such as and , which are themselves not common.[1] However, the labial-palatal approximant and labio-palatalized consonants also appear in languages without front rounded vowels in the Caucasus and West Africa,[2] such as Abkhaz, and as allophones of labialized consonants before , including the at the beginning of the language name Twi. In Russian, and trigger labialization of any preceding consonant, including palatalized consonants, so that нёс 'he carried' is pronounced .
Labial-palatal consonants
Truly coarticulated labial-palatal consonants such as are theoretically possible.[3] However, the closest sounds attested from the world's languages are the labial-postalveolar consonants of Yélî Dnye in New Guinea, which are sometimes transcribed as labial-palatals.
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