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What does velaric mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) Produced by combining a closure at the velum and a lowering of the tongue to decrease the pressure in the mouth.
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The third type, clicks, use the velaric ingressive airstream mechanism, produced by rarefying a small volume of air enclosed in the mouth.
This so-called velaric airstream mechanism is always ingressive and can only be used for stops and affricates.

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