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uvular N

uvular
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uvular ADJ

uvular ANAT

uvular ADJ ANAT

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Two notable variants occur, however, one sibilant and the other velar or uvular.
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Velar, on the other hand, is quite rare (and uvular even rarer).
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Note that close vowels are more open in the environment of a uvular consonant.
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This includes the voiced uvular fricative, voiceless uvular fricative, and uvular trill.
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Between instances of, or after at the end of a syllable, the velar is realized as the uvular or.
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They are notable phonologically for the occurrence of voiceless sonorants and uvular consonants; otherwise their phonology is also quite typical of the region.
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A uvular followed by a front vowel, as in kinsman, for example, is written with the corresponding back vowel to specify the uvular value:.
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Historically, this occurred so often with the voiced uvular fricative that it disappeared entirely from the language.
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While the former part is simply a uvular trill, there is no standard linguistic term for the latter.
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The dorsal consonants are usually velar, but with the tongue a little further back, making them somewhere between velar and uvular in articulation.
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