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Labio-palatalization
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<p>A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously <a href="/facts/Labialization/gxgAWAQI">labialized</a> and <a href="/facts/Palatalization_(phonetics)/LXAIp4TB">palatalized</a>. Typically the <a href="/facts/Roundedness/2NImak2G">roundedness</a> is compressed, like [y], rather than protruded like [u]. The symbol in the <a href="/facts/International_Phonetic_Alphabet/2e7jmUaG">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> for this <a href="/facts/Secondary_articulation/EmBEgm59">secondary articulation</a> is ⟨ᶣ⟩, a superscript ⟨ɥ⟩, the symbol for the <a href="/facts/Labialized_palatal_approximant/MGBhE7G1">labialized palatal approximant</a>. If such sounds pattern with other, labialized, consonants, they may instead be transcribed as palatalized consonants plus labialization, ⟨ʷ⟩, as with the [sʲʷ] = [sᶣ] of <a href="/facts/Abkhaz_language/CCHPFsb6">Abkhaz</a> or the [nʲʷ] = [nᶣ] of <a href="/facts/Akan_language/yE0TY0YH">Akan</a>. </p><p>A voiced labialized palatal approximant [ɥ] occurs in <a href="/facts/Mandarin_Chinese/yxvDg67C">Mandarin Chinese</a> and <a href="/facts/French_language/qe1DnaQh">French</a>, but elsewhere is uncommon, as it is generally dependent upon the presence of front <a href="/facts/Rounded_vowel/2NImak2G">rounded vowels</a> such as [<a href="/facts/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel/pNpR6XNS">ø</a>] and [<a href="/facts/Close_front_rounded_vowel/fAyNrUxL">y</a>], which are themselves not common. However, a labialized palatal approximant and labio-palatalized consonants appear in some languages without front rounded vowels in the Caucasus and in West Africa, such as Abkhaz, and as <a href="/facts/Allophone/2gp1p5PN">allophones</a> of labialized consonants before /i/, including the [tsᶣ] at the beginning of the language name <i>Twi.</i> In Russian, /o/ and /u/ trigger labialization of any preceding consonant, including palatalized consonants, so that <i>нёс</i> 'he carried' is phonetically [nᶣɵs]. </p><p><a href="/facts/Iaai_language/DbbtsDop">Iaai</a> has a <a href="/facts/Voiceless_labialized_palatal_approximant/wTIzlWTC">voiceless labialized palatal approximant</a> /ɥ̊/. </p>