Top 10 similar words or synonyms for nasal_approximant

fricative_approximant    0.947499

plosive_affricate    0.942584

fricative_voiceless_voiced    0.940218

voiceless_voiced    0.939300

stop_affricate_fricative    0.936706

nasal_plosive    0.932438

glottal_plosive    0.932192

plosive_nasal    0.931491

trill_approximant    0.929107

affricate_fricative    0.928473

Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for nasal_approximant

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Ottawa phonology "3. Neutralization of Initial Nasal / Approximant Consonants Before a Homorganic Nasal / Approximant Consonant."
Voiceless nasal glottal approximant The voiceless nasal glottal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, a nasal approximant, used in some oral languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , that is, an "h" with a tilde.
Nh (digraph) In Portuguese, nh represents a palatal . Due to allophony, it may represent the nasal approximant in most Brazilian, Santomean and Angolan dialects. It is not considered a distinct letter. Portuguese borrowed this digraph from Occitan.
History of Portuguese Examples such as the former two have been used by some authors to argue that the digraph "nh" was a nasal approximant in medieval Portuguese, and thus its pronunciation in most dialects of Brazil and São Tomé and Príncipe is the original one.
Kukuya language A phonemic labiodental nasal, , has only been reported from this one language. It is "accompanied by strong protrusion of both lips", being before and before and , perhaps because labialization is constrained by the spread front vowels; it does not occur before back (rounded) vowels. However, there is some doubt that a true stop can be made by this gesture due to gaps between the incisors, which are filed to points by the Teke people and would allow air to flow during the occlusion; this is particularly pertinent considering that one of the words with this consonant, , means a 'gap between filed incisors'. That is, Teke might be better characterized as a labiodental nasal approximant than as a nasal occlusive.