velar consonant

consonant articulated with the back part of the tongue
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velar consonant
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velar consonant

Summary

velar consonant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (287 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • velar consonant's image is recorded as Velar.svg[2].
  • velar consonant's follows is recorded as palatal consonant[3].
  • velar consonant's followed by is recorded as uvular consonant[4].
  • velar consonant's subclass of is recorded as consonant[5].
  • velar consonant's subclass of is recorded as dorsal consonant[6].
  • velar consonant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/081b2[7].
  • velar consonant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Velar consonants[8].
  • velar consonant's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • velar consonant's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/velar-consonant[10].
  • velar consonant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/velar[11].
  • velar consonant's uses is recorded as tongue[12].
  • velar consonant's uses is recorded as soft palate[13].
  • velar consonant's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as velar-consonants[14].
  • velar consonant's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i74079[15].
  • velar consonant's schematic is recorded as Velar.svg[16].
  • velar consonant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781047666[17].
  • velar consonant's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 연구개음[18].
  • velar consonant's Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID is recorded as E0036698[19].

Why It Matters

velar consonant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (287 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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