Hard and Velar

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Hard adjective - (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum.

Usage example: Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants

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Velar and hard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Velar" instead an adjective "Hard".

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Velar adjective - 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').

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Hard and velar are semantically related. You can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Velar".

Scots has also retained the Voiceless velar fricative or "hard ch", meaning that many of the superfluous appearances of "gh" in English- "through", "night", "thought", etc.- are actively pronounced in Scots.

Source: Eternal English

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