Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?

At 20:22 11/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Markus Miekk-oja wrote:
>> if approximants *are* more or less vowels, then they should have
>> the ability to be nasal, wouldn't they?
>
>Yep.  In fact, I've read of a language where nasalization spreads
>forward from a nasal consonant until it hits a fricative or stop [IIRC,
>I might be mistaken on the details], so that something that is
>phonemically /kanajate/ would be phonetically [kana~j~a~te].  But, I
>doubt that there are any langs that have phonemic nasalized
>approximates.
>
        I've read about the same language as you Nik. The details are right as far
as I remember. Yet I'm not sure about which kind of phonemes stopped the
nasalisation spread, as in the examples I remember, 'r' (I don't know if it
represented a flap, a trill, a fricative or an approximant) stopped it.

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