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Gargling by Pavel Otdelnov. Gargling is the act of bubbling liquid in the mouth. It is also the washing of one's throat with a liquid (with one's head tipped back) that is kept from being swallowed by continuous exhalation. This produces a characteristic gurgling sound. Mouthwash or hydrogen peroxide (in a low concentration) is often employed.
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
It is a nasal consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the nose, either exclusively (nasal stops) or in addition to through the mouth. It is a central consonant , which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
The phone occurs as a deaffricated pronunciation of /tʃ/ in some other dialects (most notably, Northern Mexican Spanish, informal Chilean Spanish, and some Caribbean and Andalusian accents). [14] Otherwise, /ʃ/ is a marginal phoneme that occurs only in loanwords or certain dialects; many speakers have difficulty with this sound, tending to ...
This duality, a sonorant airflow through the nose along with an obstruction in the mouth, means that nasal occlusives behave both like sonorants and like obstruents. For example, nasals tend to pattern with other sonorants such as [r] and [l] , but in many languages, they may develop from or into stops.
In Portuguese largo (rare/archaic ancho) means 'wide' and longo like in English 'long'. Spanish extrañar can mean 'to find strange' or 'to miss'. Portuguese estranhar means 'to find strange', or to lock horns. Spanish raro can mean 'rare' or 'strange'. In Portuguese, it just means 'rare'. Spanish aún can mean 'yet/still' and todavía can mean ...
The difference between the Romance languages and English is not so much where the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth but the part of the tongue that makes contact. In English, it is the tip of the tongue (such sounds are termed apical), but in the Romance languages, it is the flat of the tongue just above the tip (such sounds are called ...
The distribution of these sounds is mostly the same as in other Iberian languages, i.e.: r represents a trill when written rr between vowels; at the beginning of a word; or following /l/, /s/, /ʒ/, or n . Examples: carro, rua, Israel, honrar. Note that n does not represent /n/, but a nasalized vowel.