Re: Question about word-initial velar nasal

Danny Wier wrote at 2004-10-24 06:38:00 (-0500)
 > From: "Tim May"
 >
 > >
 > > Incidentally, what languages _do_ allow /N/ initally?  Offhand, I can
 > > only think of Vietnamese and Tibetan, and it's a tricky thing to look
 > > up.
 >
 > Some of these have already been mentioned by others, so pardon the
 > redundancy. These I know for sure:
 >
 > Albanian, and I have no idea how that happened.

Really?  How is this indicated in Albanian writing?  I've just been
looking into the language, and I can't see any mention of it.

 > Celtic languages (Breton, Welsh, Irish and Scots Gaelic), but as a result of
 > nasal mutation of initial velar stops.
 > Vietnamese
 > Tagalog and other Philippine languages
 > Samoyedic languages like Nganasan (as the name implies)
 >

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