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• n  a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate
• a  of or relating to the velum
• s  produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')

• velar consonant

News & Articles

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• Koala Owes Deep Voice to Oddball Anatomy
  Newly discovered so-called velar vocal folds give male koalas the ability to produce unusually low-pitched mating calls for an animal their size. Sophie Bushwick reports.
  Dec. 4, 2013 - Scientific American via Yahoo! News