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A velar sound is produced with the back of the tongue approaching or touching the velum (also known as the soft palate) at the back of the mouth.
 
A velar sound is produced with the back of the tongue approaching or touching the velum (also known as the soft palate) at the back of the mouth.
*The velar sounds in English are <nowiki>[k]</nowiki> as in ''kick'', <nowiki>[g]</nowiki> as in ''get'', and <nowiki>[ŋ]</nowiki> the sound at the end of the</nowiki> word ''sing''
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*The velar sounds in English are <nowiki>[k]</nowiki> as in ''kick'', <nowiki>[g]</nowiki> as in ''get'', and <nowiki>[ŋ]</nowiki> the sound at the end of the word ''sing''
 
 
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar
 
*[http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html Interactive IPA Charts]
 
*[http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html Interactive IPA Charts]

Revision as of 06:12, 17 June 2012

A velar sound is produced with the back of the tongue approaching or touching the velum (also known as the soft palate) at the back of the mouth.

  • The velar sounds in English are [k] as in kick, [g] as in get, and [ŋ] the sound at the end of the word sing

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Ladefoged, Peter (1993) A Course in Phonetics Third Edition. London: Harcourt Press.