The levetor veli palatini muscle elevates the soft palate, the muscle uvulae bunches the soft palate, and the tensor veli palatini tenses and shortens the palate.
Rhesus monkeys, when left to their own devices will breathe through their noses with their mouth closed and their tongue resting on the soft palate, and they usally have properly functioning, straight teeth.
Pharyngeal phase, in which the movements of the soft palate, larynx and epiglottis separate the air passage from the food passage so that food and drink are not aspirated into the nose or trachea.
The oropharynx includes the soft palate which is the soft part of the roof of the mouth right behind the hard palate, the tonsils, the walls of the throat, and the posterior or back one-third of the tongue.
The oral surfaces covered by non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium include the buccal mucosa, the floor of the mouth, the lateral and ventral (or bottom) surfaces of the tongue, the soft palate, and the retromolar trigone.
And in a sound like ng as in ng as in 'song', 'meeting' and 'talking' the back of the tongue is raised touching the soft palate and the sound travels up and out through your nose.
在像" song " 中" ng " 和" meeting " 和" talking " 发音中根碰到软腭,声音通过鼻子向上发出。