velar nasal

Syllabic velar nasal is also possible in this context.

The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

The phonemic analysis of the velar nasal has already been discussed above (notes on Chapter 7).

The velar nasal is written with the diagraph ng .

The velar nasals have fallen together with the alveolar nasals.

All of these can be syllabic and the syllabic velar nasal may also appear at the end of words.

In many languages, while the velar nasal is commonly restricted to preceding velar sounds, in Assamese it can occur intervocalically.

The velar place of articulation development is due to velar nasals being the least perceptible of the nasals and its marginal status in (pre-)Nyole and other Bantu languages.

Examples of possible syllabic velar nasals would be 'thicken'(where and are also possible), and 'broken key', where the nasal consonant occurs between velar consonants (again, or could be substituted for ).

Frommer based some Na'vi grammar on Polynesian languages and used consonants such as ejectives and word-initial velar nasals that do not occur in Western languages, while omitting common Western sounds like "b", "d" and "g".