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Velars are
consonants articulated with the back part of the
tongue (the dorsum)
against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the
mouth (also known...
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- by post-velar consonants. /i/ is [ɪ]
adjacent to a post-velar or labio-
postvelar consonant, or
preceding /ʔ/. The
rounded close high back
vowel /u/ is...
- in both
cases -
compare Northern Dutch acht [ɑʀ̝̊˖t] 'eight' (with a
postvelar-uvular
fricative trill) with
Southern Dutch [ɑxt] or [ɑx̟t],
which features...
- post-palatal or even medio-palatal for the
middle of the hard palate); or
postvelar (near the
border of the soft
palate and the uvula). They can be useful...
- of the Sui
language include voiceless nasals (hm, hn),
palatal stops,
postvelar stops,
prenasalized stops (mb, nd), and pre-glottalized
stops and nasals...
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therefore [s̠]. Similarly, the
velar consonants in
Kwakiutl are
actually postvelar; that is,
pronounced ****her back than a
prototypical velar,
between velar...
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spoken above the
rivers Rhine,
Meuse and Waal the
corresponding sound is a
postvelar-uvular
fricative trill [ʀ̝̊˖]. See
Dutch phonology and Hard and soft G...
- š č č̓
before x k k̓. /i/ may be pronounced: [ɪ]
before postvelars [ɪː, ɛː]
between postvelars [e̞, e̞ː],
before a
sonorant followed by a
consonant or...
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harmony are
those that
involve tone or both
vowels and
consonants (e.g.
postvelar harmony). Some
languages have
harmony processes that
involve an interaction...
