Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?

At 22:17 -0500 15.2.2000, Roger Mills wrote:
>    If you mean /m n N/ etc. versus /mb, nd, Ng/ etc. -- yes, Fijian and no
>doubt other Melanesian langs, some "minor" ones in eastern Indonesia both
>nowadays and historically, Proto-Polynesian---these are just my particular
>hobby-horses.  Surely elsewhere in the world, too. Roger
Central Tibetan (except Hlasa) too.  It doesn't have any non-prenasalized
voiced stops, though, and prenasalized stops and the so-called deep tone
can only occur together, so maybe voicing and prenasalization are
conditioned by the tone here (although historically it is the other way
around: prenasalization preserved voicing and induced the extra-deep tone.)



/BP

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