The most important aspects of vowel quality are tongue height, frontness/backness and lip rounding.
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Backness
//ˈbæk.nɪs//
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3 translations across 2 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- posterioritat noun (a quality of vowels: the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth)
Hungarian
2 entries- elölképzettség noun (a quality of vowels: the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth)
- elölség noun (a quality of vowels: the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth)
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