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.
Hypernyms: nasal, sonorant, resonant

Coordinate term: nasal vowel

Translations

nasal consonant

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: nasaalikonsonantti
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
Ukrainian: носови́й при́голосний m (nosovýj prýholosnyj)
Welsh: cytsain drwynol f

References

Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1979

Further reading

nasal consonant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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