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Mouillé (French for "moistened") is a term describing a palatal or palatalized consonant, particularly l or n.
Mouillé consonants l mouillé n mouillé French (i)ll (i)gn Italian gl gn Spanish ll ñ Portuguese lh nh Occurrence
L mouillé has a variety of origins in the Romance languages. In this table, letters that represent or used to represent palatal l (/ʎ/) are bolded. In French, /ʎ/ merged with /j/ in pronunciation in the 18th century; in many dialects of Spanish, /ʎ/ has merged or is merging with /ʝ/.
Latin meliōrem
"better"auric(u)la
"ear"caballum
"horse"clavem
"key"lunam
"moon"Italian migliore orecchio cavallo chiave luna French meilleur oreille cheval clef lune Portuguese melhor orelha cavalo chave lua Catalan millor orella cavall clau lluna Spanish mejor oreja caballo llave luna This phonetics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.