velar consonant
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A velar consonant is a speech sound made by placing the back of your tongue against the soft part of the roof of your mouth, like the "k" sound in "king" or the "g" sound in "go." These sounds appear in many languages around the world and help form the distinct sound patterns that make different languages recognizable to our ears.
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Velar consonants are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
Since the velar region of the roof of the mouth is relatively extensive and the movements of the dorsum are not very precise, velars easily undergo assimilation, shifting their articulation back or to the front depending on the quality of adjacent vowels. They often become automatically fronted, that is partly or completely palatal before a following front vowel, and retracted, that is partly or completely uvular before back vowels.