Labialized palatal approximant
| Labialized palatal approximant | |||
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| ɥ | |||
| jʷ | |||
| IPA number | 171 | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɥ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0265 | ||
| X-SAMPA | H |
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| Kirshenbaum | j<rnd> |
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| Protruded palatal approximant | |
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| ɥ̫ | |
| ɥʷ | |
| jʷ |
The labialized palatal approximant, also called the labial–palatal or labio-palatal approximant, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It has two constrictions in the vocal tract: with the tongue on the palate, and rounded at the lips. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɥ⟩, a rotated lowercase letter ⟨h⟩, or occasionally ⟨jʷ⟩, since it is a labialized [j].
The labialized palatal approximant can in many cases be considered the semivocalic equivalent of the close front rounded vowel [y]. The two are almost identical featurally. They alternate with each other in certain languages, such as French, and in the diphthongs of some languages, ⟨ɥ⟩ and ⟨y̑⟩ with the non-syllabic diacritic are used in different transcription systems to represent the same sound. Sometimes, ⟨y̆⟩ is written in place of ⟨y̑⟩, even though the former symbol denotes an extra-short [y] in the official IPA.
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