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Places of articulation |- | Labial consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Bilabial consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Labiodental consonant |- | Linguolabial consonant |- | Coronal consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Dental consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Retroflex consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Alveolar consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Postalveolar consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Alveolo-palatal consonant |- | Palatal consonant |- | style="padding-left: 2.0em;"| Labial-palatal consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Velar consonant |- | style="padding-left: 2.0em;"| Labial-velar consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Uvular consonant |- | Pharyngeal consonant |- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"| Epiglottal consonant |- | Glottal consonant |- | style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc"| |- | style="text-align: center;"| |}
In phonetics, alveolo-palatal are consonants articulated with the tip of the tongue between the alveolar ridge and the palate, but closer to the palate than for postalveolar consonants.
Alveolo-palatal consonants can be found in Chinese languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Hakka, Wu (Shanghainese) etc., as well as in Abkhaz, Polish and Ubykh.
The following table displays only fricatives; other alveolo-palatal consonants like stops, nasals, are also possible. The alveolo-palatal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
| IPA Symbol | Name | Example | Meaning | |
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| ɕ | Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative | |||
| ʑ | Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative | |||