A voiceless palatal nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are and , which are combinations of the letter for the voiced palatal nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.
Features of a voiceless palatal nasal:
If distinction is necessary, a voiceless alveolo-palatal nasal may be transcribed as (devoiced, retracted and palatalized ), or / (devoiced and advanced ); these are essentially equivalent, since the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue. A non-IPA letter (devoiced , which is an ordinary "n", plus the curl found in the symbols for alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives ) can also be used.