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In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages (including English), a distinction between hard and soft occurs in which represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard (which often precedes the non-front vowels , and ) is that of the voiceless velar stop, (as in ''car'') while the sound of a soft (typically before , and ), depending on language, may be a fricative or affricate. In English, the sound of soft is (as in "citrus"). ==History== This alternation has its origins in a historical palatalization of which took place in Late Latin, and led to a change in the pronunciation of the sound before the front vowels and . Later, other languages not descended from Latin, such as English, inherited this feature as an orthographic convention.
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