velar in English

adjective
1
of or relating to a veil or velum.
It is possible that the Texas specimens are also instars and have not developed the velar frill of mature specimens.
2
(of a speech sound) pronounced with the back of the tongue near the soft palate, as in k and g in English.
The back of the tongue lies opposite the soft palate or velum when the tongue is in a state of rest, and sounds made with the back include velar consonants and back vowels.
noun
1
a velar sound.
His spelling of tree and leg shows that the Proto-Athabaskan velars had not yet become palatal affricates, as they soon thereafter did.

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1. Process Description Example Likely Age of Elimination** Velar Assimilation : non-velar sound changes to a velar sound due to the presence of a neighboring velar sound : kack for tack; guck for duck

2. Unlike pre-velar raising, post-velar raising is highly recessive.

3. Comment: Backing occurs whenever a non-velar or non-glottal consonant (i.e

4. Backing of Alveolars The substitution of velar consonants for alveolar consonants, e.g., ,

5. The study quantified less articulatory undershoot for velar stops in comparison to Alveolars

6. Bilabials final consonant deletion final position alveolars final consonant deletion final position palatals final consonant deletion palatal fronting stoppin g final position velars velar assimilation (will affect other target sounds) final consonant deletion velar fronting final position

7. The velar ejective /k͜xʼ/ varies between a plosive , a central affricate , a lateral affricate , and a fricative .

8. Agma definition: the symbol ( ŋ ), used to represent a velar nasal consonant , as in long ( lɒŋ ������ ) or Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

9. However, palatal affricates are written with the same letters as velar stops, so Beijing is written as Beiging in Sin Wenz.

10. The present study sheds light on the phonetic causes of sound change and the intermediate stages of the diachronic pathways by studying the palatalization and Assibilation of velar stops (referred to commonly as ‘velar softening’, as exemplified by the replacement of Latin /ˈkɛntʊ/ by Tuscan Italian [ˈtʃɛnto] ‘one hundred’), and of labial stops and labiodental fricatives (also

11. Phonemic assimilation – velar place The above rules have examined how the Alveolars /t, d, n/, and combinations of these, become bilabial before bilabial consonants

12. Agma definition, (in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letterg or by gamma

13. Beach (1938) reported that the Khoekhoe of the time had a velar lateral ejective affricate, , a common realisation or allophone of /kxʼ/ in languages with clicks.

14. Voiced Bilabial nasal (stop) voiced alveolar nasal (stop) voiced velar nasal (stop) voiced alveolar (lateral) liquid: voiced alveolar (retroflex) liquid: voiced Bilabial glide: voiceless Bilabial glide: voiced palatal glide

15. # The Velar Nasal is a non-phonemic allophone of /n/ in some northerly British accents, appearing only before /k/ and /g/. In all other dialects it is a separate phoneme, although it only occurs in Syllable Coda s.

16. Mono has 33 consonant phonemes, including three labial-velar stops (/k͡p/, /ɡ͡b/, and prenasalized /ŋ͡mɡ͡b/), an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap /ⱱ/ (allophonically a bilabial flap ) that contrasts with both /v/ and /w/.

17. Kappa (majuscule Κ, minuscule κ) is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet , used to represent the voiceless velar stop , or "k", sound in Ancient and Modern Greek . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20.

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19. The palatal approximate /j/ is written y, the palatal affricates /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ are written ch and j, and the palatal and velar nasals /ɲ/ and /ŋ/ are written ny and ng (Schneider 1966:12-14).

20. Thus one can also refer to that glide phonologically as a labial glide, a velar (or back) glide, or a Bilabial glide (though adding "bi-" would be less than minimal, compared to simply "labial")

21. An examination of the International Phonetic Alphabet chart (IPA 2007) yields a large number of Consonantal places of articulation that are phonetically possible: bilabial, labio-dental, dental, alveolar, post-alveolar, retroflex, palatal, velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal, as shown in Table 22.1.

22. We see from Table 6 that the group of non-velar and non-glottal consonants incorporates the bilabials /p b m w/, the labio-dentals /f v/, the dentals /θ ð/, the Alveolars / t d n s z l/, the post-Alveolars /ʃ ʒ ʧ ʤ r/ and the palatal /j/

23. Consonant CHART (ENGLISH) PLACE OF ARTICULATION MANNER VOICING Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Post-Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Stop Voiceless p (spat) t (stack) k (scat) [/ (uh-oh)] Voiced b (bat) d (dig) g (get) Fricative Voiceless Τ f (fat) (thin) s (sat) Σ (shoe) h (hat) Voiced v (vat) ∆ (then) z (zap) Ζ (measure)