Velar Consonants

Velar consonants are consonants that have the back of the tongue (dorsum) as the active articulator and the soft palate (velum) as the passive articulator. A very similar place of articulation is the uvular place of articulation, that also involves the uvula.

In Orish there in no phonemic distinction between velar and uvular consonants, but there are gaps between the two places of articulation in efficiency: velar plosives are easier and more comfortable to pronounce than uvular plosives and velar actually exist almost in all languages while uvular plosives are way rarer, while uvular trills exist but velar trills are impossible since nothing can vibrate in this place of articulation. And the fricatives can be either velar and uvular though uvular fricatives are usually stronger than velar fricatives.

Velar Consonants in Orish

 * K - represents the unvoiced velar plosive.
 * G - represents the voiced velar plosive.
 * R - represents the rhotic phoneme, some of its free varients are velar or uvular.
 * X - represents the unvoiced velar or uvular fricative.