nasal consonant

English

Noun

Examples (English)
/m/ in man /n/ in no /ŋ/ in song

nasal consonant (plural nasal consonants)

A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.
Coordinate term: nasal vowel

Hypernym: nasal

Translations

nasal consonant

French: consonne nasale f
German: Nasal (de) m, Nasallaut (de) m, Nasenlaut (de) m

Italian: consonante nasale f
Portuguese: consoante nasal f, nasal (pt) f

Further reading

nasal consonant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1979

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