Re: Labiodental nasals
From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 23, 2004, 16:28 |
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> But that's not what I was asking about; the brooding about assimilation
> was
> just what led me to ponder my actual quesation, which I guess I didn't
> phrase
> very well, so let me try again:
>
> What natlanguages have /F/ as a distinct phoneme, contrasted with /m/
> and/or
> /n/? Do any contrast it with both?
>
Does any IPA sources contain such information? If it _contrasts_ somewhere,
that must be known. It certainly occurs as an allophone in lots of langs.--
I recall my Catalan grammar actually used the correct symbol when discussing
the written "-nf-" sequence; You get it in Span. conforte, énfasis, infierno
etc.