Velar consonants are articulated with the back part of the tongue against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth.
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Velar
//ˈviːlɚ//
Synonyms for "velar" (97 found)
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45 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- طَبَقِيّ noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Armenian
2 entries- ետնալեզվային adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- ետնալեզվային noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- damaqarxası adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Catalan
2 entries- velar adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- velar noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 軟齶音 /软腭音 noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Czech
3 entries- měkkopatrový adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- velární adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- zadopatrový adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Danish
2 entries- velær adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- velar noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Dutch
1 entries- velaar noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Finnish
2 entries- velaarinen adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- velaari noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
French
1 entries- vélaire noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Georgian
3 entries- უკანასასისმიერი adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- ველარული noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- უკანასასისმიერი noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
German
2 entries- Gaumensegellaut noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- Velar noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Greek
1 entries- υπερωικός adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Icelandic
1 entries- uppgómmæltur adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Italian
1 entries- velare adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Japanese
1 entries- 軟口蓋音 noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Mongolian
1 entries- хойгуур adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Polish
3 entries- miękkopodniebienny adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- tylnojęzykowy adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- welarny adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Portuguese
2 entries- velar adj (articulated at the soft palate)
- velar noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Russian
3 entries- веля́рный noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- задненёбный noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- заднеязы́чный noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jedrènīk noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- mekonepčanik noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- stražnjonepčanik noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
- vèlār noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Slovene
1 entries- mehkonebnik noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Spanish
1 entries- velar adj (articulated at the soft palate)
Welsh
1 entries- felar noun (a sound articulated at the soft palate)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The Yiddish word מעשׂה is pronounced "mayse," "mase," or "manse," the last of which contains a remnant of an old velar nasal pronunciation of the letter ayin.
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