adjective
- (phonetics) of or relating to a consonant sound that is preceded by a nasal sound within the same syllable
Usage: technical; linguistics
Examples
- In some languages, prenasalized stops are phonologically distinct from plain stops.
- The prenasalized consonants in Bantu languages are written with a preceding nasal letter.
- Linguists study prenasalized sounds to understand phonetic variation across languages.
- A prenasalized stop combines the features of both a nasal and an oral consonant.