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Re: Is this a realistic phonology?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, March 7, 1999, 21:48
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> I'm sorry that I ask, and it's possible that there's something here that I don't > quite get, but what's bizarre about having more nasals than voiced stops? > Swedish has six nasals (bilabial, labiodental, dental, retroflex, palatal and velar) > and only four voiced stops (blb, dental, retroflex and velar).
Well, only that, up to this point, I didn't realize that there *were* langs with more nasals than stops.