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palatalizational

palatalizational adjective: of or relating to palatalization.

Adjective

palatalizational

  1. Of or relating to palatalization.
    • The principal change in Slovak historical phonology, dipthongization of long vowels, is nowhere explored from the viewpoint of its bearing on the limitation in palatalizational oppositions and oppositions in quantity.1957 December, George Y. Shevelov, “[[d:Q139505177|Ján Stanislav, Dejiny slovenského jazyka, I, Úvod a hláskoslovie [review]]]”, in The American Slavic and East European Review, volume 16, number 4...
    • Kirundi exhibits a pattern of consonant mutation before front vowel suffixes that has traditionally been palatalizational.1990, Ellen Broselow, Alice Niyondagara, “Feature geometry of Kirundi palatalization”, in Eyamba G. Bokamba, editor, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: The Contributions of African Linguistics to...

Origin of palatalizational

From palatalization + -al.

Questions about palatalizational

What does palatalizational mean?
Palatalizational means of or relating to palatalization.
What part of speech is palatalizational?
Palatalizational is an adjective.

Words near palatalizational in the dictionary

  1. palatalising
  2. palatalism
  3. palatality
  4. palatalizable
  5. palatalization
  6. palatalizational
  7. palatalizations
  8. palatalize
  9. palatalized
  10. palatalizes
  11. palatalizing

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