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  2. Nasalization - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. [1] An archetypal nasal sound is [n]. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, nasalization is indicated by printing a tilde diacritic U+0303 ̃ COMBINING ...

  3. Nasal vowel - Wikipedia

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    A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ or Amoy [ɛ̃]. By contrast, oral vowels are produced without nasalization. Nasalized vowels are vowels

  4. Nasal consonant - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Voiced labial–velar nasal - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Voiceless velar nasal - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless 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 ŋ̊ , a combination of the letter for the voiced velar nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness .

  7. Airstream mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The only attested use of a lingual egressive is a bilabial nasal egressive click in Damin. Transcribing this also requires the use of the Extended IPA, [ŋʘ↑] . Since the air pocket used to initiate lingual consonants is so small, it is not thought to be possible to produce lingual fricatives , [ citation needed ] vowels, or other sounds ...

  8. Articulatory phonetics - Wikipedia

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    To produce sounds that people can interpret as spoken words, the movement of air must pass through the vocal folds, up through the throat and, into the mouth or nose to then leave the body. Different sounds are formed by different positions of the mouth—or, as linguists call it, "the oral cavity" (to distinguish it from the nasal cavity).

  9. Nasal voice - Wikipedia

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    A nasal voice is a type of speaking voice characterized by speech with a "nasal" quality. [ clarification needed ] It can also occur naturally because of genetic variation. Nasal speech can be divided into hypo-nasal and hyper-nasal.