adjective
- pronounced with air flowing through the nose; having a nasal quality
Usage: phonetics; linguistics
Examples
- The vowel in the French word ‘bon’ is nasalised.
- Many languages have nasalised consonants that don’t exist in English.
- Her speech became nasalised due to her cold.
- The linguist studied nasalised sounds in various African languages.
- Portuguese has several nasalised vowel phonemes.
- The singer’s nasalised tone was distinctive but not always pleasant.