Velars in a sentence

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.

At the end of syllables, palatals ch and nh have merged with alveolars t and n, which, in turn, have also partially merged with velars c and ng in Central and Southern varieties.

Before rounded vowels, only labialized velars occur, e.g. /kʷoːɽaː/ ('ringworm'). citation Glottalic consonants Hausa has glottalic consonants (implosives and ejectives) at four or five places of articulation (depending on the dialect).

By modern Mandarin, -o after velars (and what used to be ng-) have shifted to -ê, thus they are written as ge, ke, he and e in pinyin.

For instance, in Sanskrit velars (k-like sounds) were replaced by palatals (ch-like sounds) whenever the following vowel was *i or *e.

If necessary, impossible consonant sequences are rectified as in Tocharian A. Consonants The following are the main changes between PIE and Proto-Tocharian: * Centum change: PIE "palatals" merge with PIE "plain velars".

In addition, as a result of a process usually termed iotation (or iodization), velars and dentals alternate with palatals in various inflected forms and in word formation.

On the other hand, some Prairie speech exhibits raising of /æ/ before voiced velars ( /ɡ/ and /ŋ/ ), with an up-glide rather than an in-glide, so that bag can almost rhyme with vague.

Other languages lack simple velars.

Palatalization occurred before PIE e, ē, y and sometimes i; specifically, PIE i triggered palatalization of dentals but generally not of velars or labials.

The palatal alternants of velars occur before front vowels in all other environments, where dental alternants do not occur, as well as in various places in inflection and word formation described below.