Definitions
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- adjective phonetics articulated with the
tongue near or touching the back of thealveolar ridge
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tropylium: "Another noob question: is the -si / -śi flip-flopping something systematic, or free variation doesn't seem improbable if either represents a postalveolar?"
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Another noob question: is the -si / -śi flip-flopping something systematic, or free variation doesn't seem improbable if either represents a postalveolar?
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C-cedille is also used in Albanian, Kurdish and Turkish (plus related languages) to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate ch - as in 'church'.
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