noun
- consonant sounds produced with simultaneous lip rounding and tongue contact with the soft palate
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- The linguist studied labiovelars in various Indo-European languages.
- Proto-Indo-European had a series of labiovelars that later developed differently in daughter languages.
- In phonetics class, we learned that labiovelars involve both lip and tongue articulation.
- The reconstruction of labiovelars helps explain certain sound changes in historical linguistics.
- Some languages preserve labiovelars while others have merged them with other consonant series.