Consonants like /k, g, j/ articulated with the back of the tongue
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Dorsal consonants are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum). They include the palatal, velar and, in some cases, alveolo-palatal and uvular consonants. They contrast with coronal consonants, articulated with the flexible front of the tongue, and laryngeal consonants, articulated in the pharyngeal cavity.
and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Dorsalconsonants are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum). They...
an organism Dorsal, positioned on top of an aircraft's fuselage Dorsalconsonant, a consonant articulated with the back of the tongue Dorsal fin, the fin...
human languages. The only languages recorded to lack velars (and any dorsalconsonant at all) may be Xavante, Tahitian, and (phonologically but not phonetically)...
speech community. Dorsalconsonants are those consonants made using the tongue body rather than the tip or blade. Palatal consonants are made using the...
Xavante and Tahitian—which have no dorsalconsonants whatsoever—nearly all other languages have at least one velar consonant: most of the few languages that...
is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, plus some of the consonants which require diacritics...
upper lip. Alveolo-palatal and linguolabial consonants sometimes behave as dorsal and labial consonants, respectively, rather than as coronals. In Arabic...
as either centum languages or satem languages according to how the dorsalconsonants (sounds of "K", "G" and "Y" type) of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European...
large group of consonants, the dorsalconsonants are an exception to both of these rules. Latvian has 3 unpalatalized dorsalconsonants /k/, the voiced...
Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth). Consonants with the...
a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion...
had' Old English had a fairly large set of dorsal (postalveolar, palatal, velar) and glottal consonants: [k, tʃ, ɡ, dʒ, ɣ, j, ʃ, x, ç, h]. Typically...
in sounds. The language has both monophthongs and diphthongs, and many consonants can be voiced or unvoiced. Icelandic has an aspiration contrast between...
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator. The two...
consonants. From the perspective of primary places of articulation, this includes all of the laryngeal consonants and some of the dorsalconsonants (specifically...
the alveolo-palatal consonants (e.g., [ɕ ʑ]), such as the j, q and x occurring in Mandarin Chinese the dorsal palatal consonants (e.g., [ç ʝ ɲ]), such...
articulation: labial, coronal, dorsal, and pharyngeal. (The glottis controls phonation, and works simultaneously with many consonants. It is not normally considered...
following tables present pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants. In the IPA, a pulmonic consonant is a consonant made by obstructing the glottis (the space between...
dorsals, except /j/. The retraction is strongest before /χ, ʁ/. To a certain extent, this is also true of monophthongs that follow dorsalconsonants....
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the...
consonants, but only at the coronal and dorsal places of articulation; both Scottish Gaelic and Manx have lost the distinction in labial consonants....
burst of the b. The top stroke of ㅍ is for the burst of aspiration. Dorsalconsonants (후음, 喉音 hueum "throat sounds"): ㅇ '/ng [ŋ], ㅎ h [h] Basic shape: ㅇ...
in general) can vary widely within a speech community. Dorsalconsonants are those consonants made using the tongue body rather than the tip or blade...
pharyngeal consonant is a consonant that is articulated primarily in the pharynx. Some phoneticians distinguish upper pharyngeal consonants, or "high"...
from the major categories labial, coronal, dorsal and pharyngeal. The only common doubly articulated consonants are labial–velar stops like [k͡p], [ɡ͡b]...
pulmonic consonants. See glottalic consonants and click consonants for more information on the distribution of nonpulmonic consonants. Ejective consonant Implosive...
{affricate}, ⟨Cᴳ⟩ for a consonant with a glide as secondary articulation (e.g. ⟨Cʲ⟩ for {palatalized consonant} and ⟨Cʷ⟩ for {labialized consonant}) and ⟨D̪⟩ for...