orinasal
/ˌɔrɪˈneɪzəl/
noun
- A speech sound produced with air flowing through both the nose and the mouth.
- Students practiced identifying orinasals in their pronunciation class.
- The sound /m/ is an orinasal because air passes through both the mouth and nose.
- Some languages have more orinasals than English does.
adjective
- Relating to sounds produced with air passing through both the nose and the mouth, as in some speech sounds.
- In phonetics, an orinasal sound is made with both the oral and nasal cavities open.
- The linguist explained how orinasal consonants occur in certain dialects.
- The French language has several orinasal vowels.