noun
- plural of agma; speech sounds produced with the back of the tongue against the soft palate
Usage: phonetics
Examples
- The linguist studied the agmas in various Germanic languages.
- Students learned to identify agmas in their phonetics class.
- The pronunciation guide showed how agmas differ from other consonants.
- Agmas are represented by the symbol ŋ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- The researcher compared agmas across different language families.