1. A phonological process in which a nasal consonant is added before another consonant, or the state of having undergone this process.
Usage: linguistics; phonology

Examples

• Prenasalization is common in many African languages, where stops are pronounced with a preceding nasal.
• The linguistic feature of prenasalization affects how certain consonant clusters are articulated.
• In some dialects, prenasalization of voiceless stops creates a distinctive phonetic pattern.
• Researchers studying prenasalization have documented its occurrence across multiple language families.
• The prenasalization of the /p/ sound results in a pronunciation similar to /mp/.