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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 .
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.
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.
Labio-velar approximant (voiced) [ɰᵝ] in Japanese Protruded labio-velar approximant (voiced) [ɰʷ] widespread; in every above-mentioned language, as well as e.g. Arabic, English, Korean, Vietnamese: Voiceless labio-velar approximant [ʍ] certain dialects of English, Gothic: nasal labialized velar approximant [w̃] Polish, Portuguese
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 ...
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.
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 .
Ball & Rahilly too criticise in a footnote the confusion between these symbols: 'The difference between an approximant version of the voiced velar fricative [ɣ], and the velar semi-vowel [ɰ] is that the latter requires spread lips, and must have a slightly more open articulatory channel so that it becomes if prolonged' (p. 189, fn. 1).