What is Palatal fricative?

A palatal fricative is a type of fricative consonant that is also a palatal consonant. The two main types of palatal fricatives are:

They are produced with the friction of the dorsum of the tongue against the hard palate. In some dialects of English, acts as an allophone for /hj/, and some loanwords may start with.

Phonemic palatal fricatives are decently rare, especially the voiced palatal fricative. They occur more often as allophones, as in German's velar fricatives next to /i/ or /y/, or as alternative realizations of the voiced palatal approximant.