and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Dorsal consonants are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum). They...

an organism Dorsal, positioned on top of an aircraft's fuselage Dorsal consonant, a consonant articulated with the back of the tongue Dorsal fin, the fin...

human languages. The only languages recorded to lack velars (and any dorsal consonant at all) may be Xavante, Tahitian, and (phonologically but not phonetically)...

alveopalatal) consonants, sometimes synonymous with pre-palatal consonants, are intermediate in articulation between the coronal and dorsal consonants, or which...

Xavante and Tahitian—which have no dorsal consonants whatsoever—nearly all other languages have at least one velar consonant: most of the few languages that...

speech community. Dorsal consonants are those consonants made using the tongue body rather than the tip or blade. Palatal consonants are made using the...

as either centum languages or satem languages according to how the dorsal consonants (sounds of "K", "G" and "Y" type) of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European...

is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, plus some of the consonants which require diacritics...

upper lip. Alveolo-palatal and linguolabial consonants sometimes behave as dorsal and labial consonants, respectively, rather than as coronals. In Arabic...

large group of consonants, the dorsal consonants are an exception to both of these rules. Latvian has 3 unpalatalized dorsal consonants /k/, the voiced...