English

Alternative forms

• velarise

Verb

velarize ‎(third-person singular simple present velarizes, present participle velarizing, simple past and past participle velarized)

1. (linguistics) to raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant.
2. (linguistics) to replace a (usually more front) consonant with a velar

   In several dialects of Central German, the cluster -nd- has been velarized to -ng-.

Related terms

• velarization

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