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linguo-nasal

linguo-nasal adjective: (of sound) articulated by the tongue while the sound passes through the nose.

Adjective

linguo-nasal (not comparable)

  1. (of sound) articulated by the tongue while the sound passes through the nose
    • "Physical constraints of the human body are easy to see: there are no linguo-nasal trills, for example."1984, William E. Rutherford, Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition: Containing the […]

Noun

linguo-nasal (plural linguo-nasals)

  1. linguo-nasal sound

Forms of linguo-nasal

Adjective
alternative formlinguonasal
Noun
plurallinguo-nasals

Origin of linguo-nasal

From linguo- + nasal.

Questions about linguo-nasal

What does linguo-nasal mean?
Linguo-nasal means (of sound) articulated by the tongue while the sound passes through the nose.
What part of speech is linguo-nasal?
Linguo-nasal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near linguo-nasal in the dictionary

  1. linguloids
  2. lingunite
  3. linguo-
  4. linguo-dental
  5. linguo-dentals
  6. linguo-nasal
  7. linguo-nasals
  8. linguo-occlusal
  9. linguo-palatal
  10. linguo-palatals
  11. linguo-stylistics

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