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Re: Nasalized fricatives ...

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, December 2, 2004, 18:56
Quoting Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>:

> Okay.... I like nasalized fricatives. There. :p But seriously, I like > the idea, and if I ever get the pronounciation of them right then I > might just introduce them into one of my conlangs. :) Do you have any > problems pronouncing them?
I've always found nasalized sounds tricky. It took me years to get nasalized vowels, and they still tend to denasalize in connected speech. So from my POV, introducing nasalized frics makes Meghean much harder to pronounce. But that's not bad; it'll give me practice! I've always had a hard time acquiring 'new' phones. I suppose that makes me an unlikely conlanger ... But I'm persevering, and now manage such once impossible-seeming sounds as [T D R\ X\]. Nasalized fricatives do not rival such in dauntingness! Andreas