velar

The velar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word.

Finally, the "K" is velar, forming in the back of the mouth.

The basic arguments in favor of two velar series are:

Dutch is often noted for its prominent use of velar fricatives.

See Voiced velar stop for a possible reason.

Many of the phonemes are also different, including velar fricatives much like in German.

In these circumstances, is pronounced as a velar fricative consonant.

The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

Syllabic velar nasal is also possible in this context.

With the addition of these loanwords, a third velar contrast has been introduced into Hopi.

Nor does the body of the tongue have the freedom to move quickly enough to produce a velar trill or flap.

The phonemic analysis of the velar nasal has already been discussed above (notes on Chapter 7).

The voiceless velar lateral fricative is a very rare speech sound.

The velar consonants become palatals and when preceded by front vowels.

These finals also occur only with labial, velar or laryngeal initials.

In the majority of languages this letter represented a velar nasal (as in English singing).

The velar plosive "k" is the third reflex and the only one found word-initially.

The velar fricative /x/ does not occur natively in the language.

There is similar velar affrication with the dental ejective click among some speakers.

There is some dispute over the phonemicity of soft velar consonants.

The representation of the voiceless velar stop.

Both breaking and retraction are fundamentally phenomena of assimilation to a following velar consonant.

It can also occur when the syllable margin is a velar stop or nasal, or a liquid.

The n in nk is a velar nasal, as in English.

This would have been more likely if h₃ was a voiced velar obstruent to begin with.