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- Palatalization effects were widespread in the history of Proto-Slavic.
- A similar process occurs in Skolt Sami, where palatalization of consonants and fronting of vowels is a suprasegmental process applying to a whole syllable.
- In the modern Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet, ь is also used to represent the palatalization of the previous consonant, while ъ represents a lack of palatalization.
- Palatalization may result in a phonemic split, a historical change by which a phoneme becomes two new phonemes over time through palatalization.
- There is significant debate over when this palatalization took place and the exact contexts in which the change was phonologically regular.
- The most widespread source is regressive palatalization due to a lost word-final or word-medial "*-i" (a form of cheshirization), and consonant clusters with "*j" as a second member.
- The Slavic first palatalization is a Proto-Slavic sound change that manifested as regressive palatalization of inherited Balto-Slavic velar consonants.
- Many consonants may form pairs that differ only in palatalization (called "hard" vs "soft" consonants, the latter being represented in the IPA with the symbol [...]).
- The semisoft sign is used in the alphabet of the Kildin Sami language, where it indicates palatalization (sometimes also called "half-palatalization") of the preceding stop, [...].
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