Re: Labiodental nasals
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 23, 2004, 22:58 |
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In a message dated 4/23/2004 10:25:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:
>I figured
>it would assimilate to [F], which got me thinking about [F] in general.
>The fact that it has a symbol in the IPA makes me suppose that, unlike
>the corresponding labiodental plosive, it is contrasted with [m] and [n]
>in some language? Which one(s)?
Pullum & Ladusaw's _Phonetic Symbol Guide_ says:
"What is extraordinariliy rare is for a labiodental nasal to contrast with a
bilabial nasal phonologically; indeed, it appears that when this symbol was
approved by the IPA, and for a long time afterward, no instance was known.
However, a language with such a contrast has since been described . . . the Kukuya
dialect known as Teke has [F] contrasting with both [m] and a labiodental
fricative."
Doug