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Definition of Linguals
1. lingual [n] - See also: lingual
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linguals
Literary usage of Linguals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools & Universities by Philipp Buttmann (1839)
"The palatals and linguals are often changed before //, viz. x and % into y, ...
Before other linguals they are changed into a, eg 3. ..."
2. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"They are also divided into labials, palatals, and linguals, from the organs of
speech by which they are chiefly pronounced. The labials are b, p, m, p; ..."
3. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"The labials are b, p, m, p; the palatals, c, 5, and the linguals t>, ...
and subdivided them into gutturals, palatines, linguals, dentals, labials, ..."
4. The First Greek Book by Clarence Willard Gleason, Caroline Stone Atherton (1895)
"LESSON XI linguals OF THE CONSONANT DECLENSION — GENITIVE OP SEPARATION 137.
Most Lingual Stems add s to form ... linguals \vith nominatives in is and us, ..."
5. Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Basque and Other by Allison Emery Drake (1907)
"linguals (D, T, T2).f—Radical linguals (d, t, t2) may become d or t in the Aryan
languages and Basque. In Hebrew, t' is sometimes a prefix. ..."
6. A Manual of Sanskrit Phonetics: In Comparison with the Indogermanic Mother by Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (1898)
"Assimilation of dental explosives to palatal affricates, to <j, to linguals and
to 1. The dental explosives are totally assimilated to the initial consonant ..."
7. Essentials of Public Speaking by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood (1910)
"(2) linguals are consonants in which the tongue is the flexible agent in their
production, eg d, I, n, r. (3) Palatals are consonants formed by the action ..."
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