Nasal fricatives (was: Name mangling (Was: Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!))

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>>>Incidentally, I'm considering making [G~] > [Z~] before front
>>
>>vowels. Would make
>>
>>> sense, since [G] > [Z] in the same position.
>>
>>I adore [Z], so I ain't complaining.  ;)  Still, I'm rather
>>wary of those nasal frics.  They are certainly original and
>>worth experimenting with, but do you really have to test
>>your new chemicals in a crystal chalice?  :\
>
>
> Introducing them allowed for some improvements of the inflectional system, so
> I'm afraid they stay. :)
>
>                                                  Andreas
>
>
If it is any consolation to you there is an ANADEWism: nasals
are realized as nasal fricatives before fricatives in Icelandic.
Thus _Sólin skín fegurt_ is ['so:wlIz~,skiv~'fEGYrt].  I'm
afraid it can't expand to [D~] and [G~] due to the phonotactic
constraints -- [D] and [G] occur only after vowels.

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