lingualityn.
/lɪŋˈɡwalᵻti/, U.S. /lɪŋˈɡwælədi/ Phonetics.
The quality of being a lingual speech sound (see lingual adj. 3).
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1852 C. Kraitsir Glossology v. 161 Gutturality, labiality and dentality (the latter two being filtered through, as it were, by the semi-vocal liquids, and the last being alloyed, so to say, with linguality).
1854 F. M. Müller Proposals for Missionary Alphabet 39 Shall we have one mark to express palatality, another to express linguality, a third to express cerebrality and so on?
1913 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 33 56 The Buddhistic tinge.., together with the marked linguality of the earlier group, may suggest that forms in -ēra were felt to be vulgar rather than acceptable Sanskrit.
1986 J. Anderson & J. Durand in J. Durand Dependency & Non-linear Phonol. i. 38 We shall adopt a component of linguality..which characterises dentals, alveolars, palatals and velars (i.e. all sounds produced with the blade or body of the tongue).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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