velar
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1. velar - Noun
2. velar - Adjective
3. velar - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.
Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.
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Additionally, some other languages and variants, such as Haitian Creole and Timorese Portuguese use velar and glottal fricatives instead of traditional rhotics, too.
Henry R. T. Muzale, Josephat M. Rugemalira, Researching and Documenting the Languages of Tanzania (2008): "Iraqw orthography includes two letters not used in writing Kiswa-hili, q for the voiceless uvular stop, and x for the voiceless velar fricative.
Following the 1966 Bamako spelling conventions, a nasal velar glide " ŋ " is written as " ŋ ", although in early publications it was often transcribed as ng or nk.
In Moroccan Arabic, on the other hand, short /u/ triggers labialization of nearby consonants (especially velar consonants and uvular consonants ), and then short /a i u/ all merge into /ǝ/, which is deleted in many contexts.
In the velar position, the tongue has an extremely restricted ability to carry out the type of motion associated with trills or taps, and the body of the tongue has no freedom to move quickly enough to produce a velar trill or flap.
Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel.