nasal consonant

English

Noun

Template:examples-right nasal consonant (plural nasal consonants)

1. 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: consonante nasale f
• Portuguese: consoante nasal f, nasal (pt) f

Further reading

• nasal consonant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1979