Adjective palatal has 2 senses
  1. palatal, palatine - relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils"
  2. palatal, palatalized, palatalised - produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
    Antonym: hard (indirect, via soft)
,Noun palatal has 1 sense
  1. palatal - a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
    --1 is a kind of
    semivowel, glide
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