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Re: Question about word-initial velar nasal

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Sunday, October 24, 2004, 16:30
In a message dated 10/23/2004 9:17:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
butsuri@MYREALBOX.COM writes:

>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.
Australian Aboriginal languages generally seem to allow word-iniital /N/. (I say this on the basis of a glance through _Australian Languages_ by RMW Dixon and vols 4&5 of _The Handbook of Australian Languages_ ed. by Dixon & Blake.) Doug

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