* John Mietus <sirchuck@...> [000508 12:54]:
> Hello,
>
> Well, I knew I was a total amateur in this, but I'm sorry I've stirred up
> such controversy by my (now rather pathetic, I realize) attempts to explain
> the sounds of my proto-root language. Here's a stack of replies:
>
[..]
> Then, Nik Taylor spake, saying:
>
> > John Mietus wrote:
> >> Yes, a non-nasal /m/ where the lips do not actually touch.
> >
> > Is there nasalization involved?
>
> Not really...I originally thought of it as a "v" sound where there is no
> dental element, hence the orthographic "vh".
Hmm... maybe you mean an approximant v, like script v in Norwegian?
t.