Re: Mystery Phoneme
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50 |
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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!
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