Re: THEORY: Semivowels
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 9, 1999, 22:40 |
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JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:
> The Mixtecan languages have progressive nasal assimilation of the
> type you describe, but I don't seem to recall these languages having
> glides...
Ah! I found the source, an old linguistics text book. The language was
Malay. The rule is that "vowels and glides following a nasal consonant
and not seperated from it by a nonnasal consonant are nasalized" (direct
quote), so, for instance:
[me~w~a~h]
[ma~rah]
[na~E~?]
[m@~laraN]
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