velaricadj.
/vɪˈlarɪk/ Phonetics.
Produced or characterized by a velar articulation, in which there is total or partial closure between the back of the tongue and the velum.
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labiovelar1894
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post-velar1934
velaric1934
1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1938 D. M. Beach Phonetics Hottentot Lang. vi. 74 A..bilabial implosive may be made by closing the lips together, raising the back of the tongue to touch the velum, and then producing a partial vacuum between the lips & the velum by lowering the front of the tongue... This bilabial implosive may be termed a bilabial velaric click.
1959 Archivum Linguisticum XI. i. 6 The source and direction of the air~stream: pulmonic, glottalic, velaric.
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