H. S. Teoh scripsit:
> > Most Chinese loans in Indonesia seem to come from Southern Chin. dialects--
> > do they have /-N/ for Mand. /-n/ ? Or voicing of the initial?
>
> I don't know about /-N/, but Hokkien frequently has nasalized vowels where
> Mandarin has /-n/. E.g. Mandarin /huang2/ -> /~oui/; /san1/ -> /s~ua1/,
> etc..
Many Mandarin dialects render /N/ (but not /n/ AFAIK) as nasalization.
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