no...extremely rough in order to facilitate both feeding and grooming.
Cats' tongues are bristly and sandpapery because they use their tongues to clean and groom their fur. The rough surface brushes the fur, sort of like a hairbrush, and helps remove the loose, dead hairs.
cats have tongues to ball up there chewed food and to force there food down the throught.
Cats have well developed papillae; this is why their tongues feel like sandpaper when they try to groom you.
Cats use their tongues to help them eat and drink. They do not sip water as humans do, they lap it up with their tongues. Watch them some time.
You can make and find them in dogs tongues and cats tongues.
Same as yours.
They lap it up with their tongues like other cats. Unlike dogs, however, cats bring the water up under their tongues.
papillae
They like to do that themselves, with their tongues of course.
Cats' and dogs' tongues are different from people's. Their tongues are flat, while people's and parrots' tongues are fleshy.
It might be because cats have a smelling pallet on the inside of they're mouth right behind the upper lip and under the nose.
Cats have a very unique way of drinking. When they drink their tongues curl downwards. That is how the cat drinks. It is a very fast process, but that is what happens how cats drink.