Voiced palatal nasal

The voiced palatal nasal is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨J⟩. English does not have this sound but Spanish does, where it is represented by "ñ".

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 Examples 
 LanguageWordIPAMeaning !Kung    —  —  Albanian      'one'  Aranda    —  — Basque     'female teacher'  Bengali  /anycal    'area'  Burmese  /nya    'right(-hand side)' Catalan      'year' Chinese  Mandarin       'woman' Sichuanese   Wu / Shanghai dialect  /nyú nyǐnh   Czech      'horse' Dinka  nyɔt    'very'  Dutch     'orange' French     'belligerent' Galician     'wine' Greek     'New Year's Day'Haketia'spiritual' Hindustani Hindi //pañchī  'bird' Urdu /pañchī Hungarian     'mother' Italian  Standard      'bath' Romanesco dialect      'nothing' Irish  inné    'yesterday' Japanese   /     'garden' Khasi    'snake'  Khmer   /     'full' Korean   /     'evening'KurdishSouthern/yanyza'eleven' Latvian     'cloudy' Macedonian  /češanje    'itching'  Malagasy    —  —  Malay     'a lot' Malayalam  ഞാൻ/ñān   'I' Mapudungun      'spiced blood' North Frisian  Mooring      'to fly'  Norwegian  Northern      'man' Southern Occitan  Northern      'Poland' Southern Gascon  banh   'bath' Polish      'horse' Portuguese  Many dialectsConsiderações sobre o status das palato-alveolares em português , p. 12.      'Sonia' Brazilian    'to dream' European      'to scratch' Quechua      'I'  Romanian  Transylvanian dialects      'dog' Scottish Gaelic      'sing' Serbo-Croatian   /     'to her'  Slovak      'liver' Spanish      'Spanish'Swahili  nyama    'meat' Tamilஞாயிறு/ñāyiru'Sunday' Tyap      'animal'  Ukrainian  /tin'    'shadow'  Vietnamese      'house' West Frisian      'next to'  Yi   / nyi    'sit'  Zulu  inyoni    'bird'

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Category:Consonants