noun
nasal voiced sound; nasal sonant
Linguistic term referring to a voiced sound produced with nasal resonance, such as the Japanese moraic nasal /N/ or the nasal allophones of voiced stops in certain dialects.
日本語の「が」の子音は、方言によって鼻濁音になることがある。
The consonant of Japanese 'ga' can become a nasal voiced sound depending on the dialect.
Compound of 鼻 (hana, 'nose') + 濁音 (dakuon, 'voiced sound'). The term is a technical coinage in Japanese linguistics.