Velar is an English word with synonyms like flap or hard. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Velar meaning
- Articulated at the velum or soft palate.
- Referring to a veil or velum.
Using Velar
- The main meaning on this page is: Articulated at the velum or soft palate. | Referring to a veil or velum.
- Useful related words include: flap, hard, velar consonant, consonant.
- In the example corpus, velar often appears in combinations such as: velar and, rover velar, the velar.
Context around Velar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Velar
- In this selection, "velar" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rover, post, pre, intermediate, post and perhaps stand out and add context to how "velar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include range rover velar and 18 months velar e pace. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "velar" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with velar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The interior of the Velar is sparse, but not in a bad way. (13 words)
Early Old Thai also apparently had velar fricatives /x ɣ/ as distinct phonemes. (13 words)
Thus dorsal–palatal, dorsal–velar, and dorsal–uvular are usually just called "palatal", "velar", and "uvular". (16 words)
In the velar position, the tongue has an extremely restricted ability to carry out the type of motion associated with trills or taps, and the body of the tongue has no freedom to move quickly enough to produce a velar trill or flap. (43 words)
In the languages of those families that do retain plain velars, both the plain and labialized velars are actually pre-velar, perhaps to make them more distinct from the uvulars which may actually be post-velar. (36 words)
I first encountered the Velar on its press launch, in Norway when, after enjoying the car’s superb handling on the famous, switchback Trollstigen route, we also drove it off-road, across a mountain. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Terms like pre-velar (intermediate between palatal and velar), post-velar (between velar and uvular), and upper vs. lower pharyngeal may be used to specify more precisely where an articulation takes place.
In the languages of those families that do retain plain velars, both the plain and labialized velars are actually pre-velar, perhaps to make them more distinct from the uvulars which may actually be post-velar.
In the velar position, the tongue has an extremely restricted ability to carry out the type of motion associated with trills or taps, and the body of the tongue has no freedom to move quickly enough to produce a velar trill or flap.
Thus dorsal–palatal, dorsal–velar, and dorsal–uvular are usually just called "palatal", "velar", and "uvular".
Velodorsal consonants Normal velar consonants are dorso-velar: The dorsum (body) of the tongue rises to contact the velum (soft palate) of the roof of the mouth.
The Tesla Model 3, Ford Mustang, Land Rover Range Rover Velar and Mini Cooper Countryman were the used models with the biggest price drops here, the study said.
Well, this is Velar which is the smart Savile Row version compared to its more popular siblings.
JLR is largely focused in the Midlands, where its Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Velar models are created.
The interior of the Velar is sparse, but not in a bad way.
The software comes after reports that the Range Rover Velar model was the “most stolen car” between March 2022 and March 2023.
The standard Range Rover and Range Rover Velar didn't make it into the the top 10 list, with 771 and 560 thefts.
To this day, Land Rover remains one of the few automakers to do this thing right with the fantastic Range Rover Velar.
Used on the concept Rang Rover in 1969, the Velar takes its name from the Latin word velaris meaning veil.
As they debated the contrasting merits of their vehicles, Reid rumbled into view in a Range Rover Velar.
I first encountered the Velar on its press launch, in Norway when, after enjoying the car’s superb handling on the famous, switchback Trollstigen route, we also drove it off-road, across a mountain.
We expect JLR volumes to improve on account of three new launches over the next 12-18 months (Velar, E-Pace, I-Pace, RR/RRS refresh).
Additionally, some other languages and variants, such as Haitian Creole and Timorese Portuguese use velar and glottal fricatives instead of traditional rhotics, too.
Early Old Thai also apparently had velar fricatives /x ɣ/ as distinct phonemes.
Following the 1966 Bamako spelling conventions, a nasal velar glide " ŋ " is written as " ŋ ", although in early publications it was often transcribed as ng or nk.
For example, Chilcotin has a phonological process known as vowel flattening (i.e. post-velar harmony) where vowels must harmonize with uvular and pharyngealized consonants.
Common combinations with velar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: