velar

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'People are buying vegetables like velar, paravalam and siniguard from our shelves,' he added.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a velum.
  2. adjective Concerning or using the soft palate.
  3. adjective Articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (g) in good and (k) in king.

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  • If ng is supposed to represent the velar nasal then the cluster [ŋm] is something we'd only see in English medially in the word engma (one name for the velar nasal) or straddling a morphemic boundary as in hangman or ringmaster.
  • 'People are buying vegetables like velar, paravalam and siniguard from our shelves,' he added. —  India eNews
  • The spelling "Connaught", reflecting an earlier English orthographical practice of representing the voiceless velar fricative sound / x /, now lost in English, with the letters "gh", was officially used under British rule and is still found in print. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Jacqueline describing her job: "tendrá que velar y supervisar todos los servicios para que los capitalinos tengan una mejor calidad de vida, la nueva vida socialista" will have to care and supervise all services so that the capital inhabitants have a better quality of life, the new socialist life. —  Venezuela News And Views
  • Doña Martina a sus 48 años de edad, ha podido sobresalir de tantas dificultades pues es madre soltera de su hija de 15 años de edad, está separada, pero el padre de su hija la apoya económicamente, habita en el barrio Laureles Norte, tiene que velar por su hija para que pueda salir adelante en sus estudios, actualmente está en secundaria y se requiere de muchos gastos y atención personal. —  Kiva Loans
 

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