Palatal Consonants

Palatal consonants are consonants that have the back of the tongue (dorsum) as the active articulator and the hard palate as the passive articulator. In palatal consonants, the position of the tongue is the same as the position of the tongue in the vowel /i/.

Palatal Consonants in Orish
In Orish, the sound of the letter Y is the only palatal consonant, the palatal approximant. This sound is actually the non-syllabic counterpart of the sound of the letter I.