Usually means: Softening of consonants near palate.
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  1. palatalization: Merriam-Webster
  2. palatalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. palatalization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. palatalization: Wordnik
  5. palatalization: Wiktionary
  6. palatalization: Dictionary.com
  7. Palatalization (disambiguation), Palatalization (phonetics), Palatalization (sound change), Palatalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. palatalization: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Palatalization: Lexicon of Linguistics

Definitions from Wiktionary (palatalization)

noun:  (phonology, uncountable) The state or quality of being palatalized, of pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth that normally is not.
noun:  (phonology, countable) An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized.

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