Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα âgma 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ng in English si ng as well as n before velar consonants as in E n glish and i n k .
When a language is claimed to lack nasals altogether, as with several Niger–Congo languages [note 1] or the Pirahã language of the Amazon, nasal and non-nasal or prenasalized consonants usually alternate allophonically, and it is a theoretical claim on the part of the individual linguist that the nasal is not the basic form of the consonant ...
The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is n , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n. The vast majority of languages have either an alveolar or dental nasal.
Example Language Orthography IPA Meaning ŋ̊: voiceless velar nasal: Burmese [3] ငှါး / nga: [ŋ̊á] 'borrow' ŋ: voiced velar nasal: English: ring [ɹʷɪŋ] 'ring' k: voiceless velar plosive: English: skip [skɪp] 'skip' ɡ: voiced velar plosive: English: ago [əɡoʊ̯] 'ago' k͜x: voiceless velar affricate: Korean: 크다/keuda [k ...
Nasal clicks are click consonants pronounced with nasal airflow.All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial ʘ) have nasal variants, and these are attested in four or five phonations: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, murmured (breathy voiced), and—in the analysis of Miller (2011)—glottalized.
Example IPA ɲ Voiced palatal nasal: Albanian: një [ɲə] ʝ Voiced palatal fricative: Modern Greek: για [ʝa] ç Voiceless palatal fricative: German: Reich [ʁaɪ̯ç] j Voiced palatal approximant: English: yellow [ˈjɛloʊ] ŋ Voiced velar nasal: sing [ˈsɪŋ] ɡ Voiced velar plosive: garden [ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dn̩] k
The voiced labial–alveolar nasal is a rare consonantal sound found in Yele. It is a [ n ] and [ m ] pronounced simultaneously. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is n͡m .
The voiced labial–velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ŋ͡m . The labial–velar nasal is found in West and Central Africa and eastern New Guinea, as well as in certain contexts in Vietnamese.