gutturonasal

  

gut·tur·o·na·sal

[guht-uh-roh-ney-zuhl] Phonetics.
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
2.
a gutturonasal sound.
Origin:
1870–75; guttur(al) + -o- + nasal1

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