1. In Southern Lisu, the velar plosives become alveopalatal before front vowels. 2. The unattested parent language, Proto-Chin, featured a voiced velar plosive . 3. English has therefore inherited words that retain a velar plosive where French has a fricative: 4. No native words have the voiced velar plosive , but it is found in loanwords. 5. Is used in the velar plosive ,. 6. Thorn clusters are sequences of a dental ( ) plus a velar plosive ( etc . ). 7. The velar plosive " k " is the third reflex and the only one found word-initially. 8. In the word " zwanzig ", is the final consonant a voiceless velar plosive or a voiceless palatal fricative? 9. If it was true for all open vowels in Old French, it would explain the palatalization of velar plosives before. 10. That is, the characters for, and have no similarity to indicate their common " k " sound ( voiceless velar plosive ).