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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.