Re: aspirated m?

Manayang váris! *)

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:41, Kris Kowal wrote:

> --- Steven Williams:
> > --- Ray Brown eskribiw:
Eskribiw? That's certainly related to ?scribere **) , but
which language is this? A Romlang?

> >
> > --- Isaac Penzev skrev:
> > > AFAIK, voiceless nasals are separate phonemes in
> > > Burmese (Myanmar).
> >
> > And several Native American languages, not to mention
> > at least one of Tolkien's conlangs (if that counts).
>
> Huh?  Either you know something about Telerin or Ilkorin
> that I don't, but I don't believe that any of Tolkien's
> conlangs have voicles nasals.
AFAIK, in Sindarin, one of the mutations of [m] is [m_0],
which later became [v]. That's also why "vellon" can be
written as "mhellon" when this mutation applies, but is
still pronounced ["vEl:On]. -- Though "mellon" is Quenya I
thought, or did they keep it unchanged in Sindarin? I've
just seen that example in a Sindarin grammar sketch, but I
don't remember the URL anymore. IIRC, that page was in
German, anyway.

I don't know anything about Telerin and Ilkorin -- does
Ardalambion give any information on these? Has the Quenya
course PDF been updated finally?

Mangasaha ang pasisilvaynin sitanyáris ***),
Carsten

*)   "I greet you!"
**)  ?scribet > il écrit? -- I took French instead of Latin!
***) "Up to the we'll see each other again."

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