Re: Question about word-initial velar nasal
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 24, 2004, 16:30 |
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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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