In phonetics, a nasal, cried a nasal occlusive as weel, nasal stap in contrast wi a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant makt wi a lawered velum, allouin air tae mak its wye freely oot the neb.
Nasal occlusives are nearly universal in human leids. There are ither kinds o nasal consonants in some leids an aa.
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