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Definitions of velar in various dictionaries:
noun - a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate
adj - of or relating to the velum
adj - produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')
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Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) * against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum). * Since the velar region of the roof of the mouth is relatively extensive and the movements of the dorsum * are not very precise, velars easily undergo assimilation, shifting their articulation back or to the front * depending on the quality of adjacent vowels. They often become automatically fronted, that is partly or completely palatal before a following front vowel, and retracted, that is partly or completely uvular before back vowels. * Palatalised velars (like English /k/ in keen or cube) are sometimes referred to as palatovelars. * Many languages also have labialized velars, such as [k], in which the articulation is accompanied by rounding of the lips. There are also labialvelar consonants, which are doubly articulated at the velum and at the lips, such as [kp]. This distinction disappears with the approximant consonant [ |