Example sentences for: velar

How can you use “velar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Finally, the "K" is velar, forming in the back of the mouth.

  • I don't know where the -sh sound arose in nebbish , but in all eastern European dialects of Yiddish the word is nebbikh or nebbakh , with a velar fricative sound that is rendered as -sh by speakers who find that easier to pronounce.

  • What I found was that the syllabics occurred only when the preceding sound was a dental or alveolar (d or t); when it was a velar (k or g), there was enough time for a speaker to release a sound which was more like a full schwa than a syllabic.

  • Winkler discovered that the first element of binomials, whether nonsense or not, often begins with a laryngeal or velar phoneme which is formed in the back of the mouth (i.e.


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