Re: The two types of "palatal" consonants in our conlangs

 --- Danny wrote:

> One of the features of the basic phonology of Tech is the distinction of two
> "palatal-class" consonants, which is also made in languages as diverse as
> Basque, Polish, Hungarian, Mandarin, Yi, blah blah blah.
<snip>

> What other natlangs and conlangs have at least the distinction of the
> postalveolar and palatized sibilants (or the palatoalveolar and
> alveolopalatal)?
Serbocroat and Slovene, but IIRC it's less obvious in those languages than in Polish.

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