Re: Mystery Phoneme
| From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50 |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:43:33 -0500, Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:
>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?
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The only one I can find in my reference sources is Inuit/Inupiaq
(formerly "Eskimo") where it is spelled _rng_. I thought some of the Paleo-
Siberian languages might have it but apparently not phonemically.
--John Quijada
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