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Re: Mystery Phoneme

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50
E fésto Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:
> Just wondering, since I have a conlang with it, but are there any > languages where /N\/ occurs as a phoneme and not an allophone of /n/ (as > Dirk suggested it could be) [N\]? What are those languages, and how do > they represent the sound?
According to a source I have on identifying various languages by distinctive phonemes, the only language with a phoneme /N\/ (uvular nasal) appears to be Japanese. This may be debatable though. *Muke! -- http://frath.net/ E jer savne zarjé mas ne http://kohath.livejournal.com/ Se imné koone'f metha http://kohath.deviantart.com/ Brissve mé kolé adâ.

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