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Velar Consonant

A velar consonant, a velar or more briefly, means, articulatory phonetics , a consonant dorsal whose place of articulation is located at the rear of the palace , the palace said "soft" or soft palate. It is produced by bulging of the posterior part of the tongue approaches the soft palate.

The French understand the velar Assimilation

Velar region of the soft palate and relatively large movements of the posterior part of the language not very precise, velars easily assimilated , their articulation moving backward or forward depending on the language of the vowels surrounding. They are often partially or completely palatalized before a front vowel , and retracted before a back vowel.

The palatalized velars are sometimes called palato-velar. Some languages also have velar labialized as Velar API

The velarization is denoted using the symbol superscript

something Voiced velar nasal occlusive English if i ng ng singing x Fricative velar fricative Hebrew Michel Voiced velar fricative Modern Greek letter gamma Voiced velar fricative Castilian pa g a pays Lateral fricative velar fricative Mid-Wagh has a e dizzy x Velar fricative ejective k Velar occlusive ejective Injective velar Fricative labio-velar fricative English wh ich which w Labio-velar voiced fricative English w itch witch

Notes

  1. The G intervocalic Castilian is often described as a voiced velar fricative slightly articulated.
  2. In the dialects that distinguish which and witch.

See also

Points of articulation
Labial Bilabial Labio-dental
Coronal
( apical , laminal )
Lingual-labial Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar alveolo-palatal retroflex
Dorsal Palatal velar Labio-velar Bellwort
Pharyngeal / Glottal Pharyngeal epiglottal Glottal
Multiple Labio-palatal Labial-velar Post-alveolar-velar
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