velar in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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velar in the PONS Dictionary

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The voiced velar fricative occurs as a late variant of the emphatic voiced interdental.
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Certain sequences of consonant and vowel do not occur: dental and alveolar obstruents preceding (); velars and preceding ().
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The split is an allophonic variation, with the fronter realisation occurring near velar and palatal consonants, and the more central one occurring elsewhere.
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There is some dispute over the phonemicity of soft velar consonants.
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That is, the characters for /ke/, /ka/ and /ko/ have no similarity to indicate their common k sound (voiceless velar plosive).
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Alternating palatals alternate with the velars, while non-alternating palatals do not.
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The exact circumstances in which palatalization occurred are complicated; see the above section on the distribution of velars and palatals for more information.
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This resulted in new sequences of velars followed by front vowels, where they did not occur before.
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Later, the palato-alveolar fricative x changed into the velar fricative, while ch stay unchanged.
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Examples with all four velars are: "qm" lazy, "cp" onwards, "kl" wet, "-g" in.
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