Do Dazals (was: Constructive Criticism Appreciated)
From: | Emily Zilch <emily0@...> |
Date: | Saturday, July 10, 2004, 20:46 |
{ 20040710,0124 | Danny Wier }
"Baybe his codculture is sufferig frob a cold epidebic! ;) Seriously,
Rotokas and a few other languages completely lack nasals, so it's not
unreasonable."
Languages lacking nasals include some from the Pacific Northwest of the
US (First Nations, that is... *dot de locals, dough dey ofted hab
coldz*), Papuan (i.e non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea) and
others.
My conlang lost nasals when they went to voiced stops; however, later l
> n. With epenthesis, there may or may not be minimal pairs of n and
other nasals.
em'ly
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