gutturonasal

[ guht-uh-roh-ney-zuhl ]

adjective
  1. articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).

noun
  1. a gutturonasal sound.

Origin of gutturonasal

1
First recorded in 1870–75; guttur(al) + -o- + nasal1

Words Nearby gutturonasal

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