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# palatal

adjective

«palatal» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it names one of the five places where the 22 letters are sounded.

**Interpretation.** The letters are grouped by where in the mouth they are made, and the tradition reads this as showing that the letters form a structure of the world.

### Meaning

Having to do with the palate, the roof of the mouth, as with the sounds made there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palatal/#m1)

### Examples

- This is the modern classification of the letters into guttural, palatal, lingual, dental and labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palatal/#x1)
- Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palatal/#x2)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «palatal» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palatal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«palatal» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/palatal.html) on Mova free.