Re: Is this a realistic phonology?

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Sahla Autumn Yasmin Ajinqwai wrote:
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I agree with everything that Nik wrote - therefore the huge snips
here and there. But I disagree with a few comments below:

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>Unreasonable, I think, to have only two voiced phonemic stops but
>three nasals.  /N/ would probably tend to become denasalized,
>becoming /g/.
There are many natlangs like this. I know many Tai and
Austro-Asiatic languages with FOUR nasals and only two phonemic
voiced stops. Thai, Vietnamese, and Cambodian are famous examples.

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>Hmm, you have phonemic implosives for bilabial and sometimes
>alveolar, but it's allophonic for velar?  Unlikely.
Again I disagree. Many of those voiced stops in the languages I
mentioned are sometimes implosives.

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just my two cents,
-kristian- 8-)