nasalization
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In phonetics, nasalisation (or nasalization in American English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
Key facts
- IPA.above
- Partially denasalized
- IPA.ipa symbol
- ◌͊
- IPA.ipa number
- 654
- IPA.decimal1
- 842
- IPA.imagefile
- IPA Unicode 0x034A.svg
- IPA.ipa symbol2
- ◌͋
via Wikipedia infobox
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Nasal vowels
- Degree of nasality
- Nasal consonants
- Nasalised consonants
- Nasal fricatives<span class="anchor" id="nareal"></span><span class="anchor" id="Nareal"></span>
- Denasalisation
- Contextual nasalisation
- See also
- References
- Works cited
In phonetics, nasalisation (or nasalization in American English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, nasalisation is indicated by printing a tilde diacritic above the symbol for the sound to be nasalised: is the nasalised equivalent of , and is the nasalised equivalent of . Although not IPA, a subscript diacritic , called an ogonek, is sometimes seen, particularly from Americanists, especially when the vowel bears tone marks that would stack with the superscript tilde. For example, are more legible than stacked .