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darkness1906
velarity1952
1952 Archivum Linguisticum4 72 The apostrophe after n and g indicates velarity.
1964 R. H. RobinsGen. Linguistics iv. 155 The nine separate phonemes..are maintained as distinctive units by six features: plosion, voice, nasality, bilabiality, alveolarity, and velarity.