Re: Question about word-initial velar nasal
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 4, 2004, 6:00 |
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:31:38 +0000, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
"ng", I suppose.
At any rate, http://www.google.com/search?q=nga+site%3Aal finds a
number of hits for the word "nga" in Albanian sites.
(Strangely enough, it also finds a number of sentences containing
e-dot, which I had only known from Lithuanian -- I only know e-umlaut
for Albanian. Maybe a dialect compromise meaning "some dialects
pronounce this /ë/, others /e/"?)
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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