Speech sounds formed with a constriction between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate. Creates a narrow opening through which the air passes. There are two lingua-palatal fricatives in English: voiceless (e.g., machine, pressure, shoe) and voiced (e.g., azure, pleasure, rouge).
See Bilabial, Clicks, Consonants, Fricative, Glottal, Labio-dental, Lateral sound, Lingua-alveolar (or alveolar), Lingua-dental (or dental), Plosive, Rhotic sound