"' Velarization "'in Sesotho is a process whereby certain sounds become velar consonants due to the intrusion of an approximant.
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Before front vowels, the velar consonants ( including the lenited allophone of ) are realized as post-palatal,,, ] } }.
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The palatalization of velar consonants before the front vowel produced different results in Norman to the central langue d'o�l dialects that developed into French.
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Since the more forward alveolo-palatal has replaced the palatal for almost all speakers, the allophone is used as before any non-velar consonant.
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A similar change is reconstructed in the history of Old French in which Bartsch's law turned open vowels into or after a palatalized velar consonant.
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So, while } } indicates velarization of non-velar consonants, it is also used for fricative release of the velar stop ( } } ).
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In addition to the laryngeals, Common Anatolian is also the only daughter to preserve the three-part velar consonant distinction from Proto-Indo-European.
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An example of a language that lacks a phonemic or allophonic velar nasal is Russian, in which is pronounced as laminal denti-alveolar even before velar consonants.
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When the velar consonants are after, and, they are articulated with a simultaneous bilabial closure ( i . e . doubly articulated ) or are strongly labialized.
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In general, velar consonants occur before front vowels and uvular consonants before back vowels, so it is frequently not necessary to specify these values in the orthography.
