Re: Re : mutation and rinya
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 8, 1999, 20:12 |
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Daniel Andreasson wrote:
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> > Nasalisation, as you know, is caused by the loss of a nasal that affects
> > the following word, leaving a consonant with a nasal quality:
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> > in tonton -> in donton -> i ndonton
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> This consonant with a nasal quality, nd, is it pronounced [Indonton]
> or are the n and the d drawn together like e.g. "mb" in African langs, "mbengo"?
What I understand is something like the consonant is replaced with an
analagous nasal: in beagation -> i mbegation, where mb is pronounced /m/.
This of course does not have to be the case with Rinya.
Padraic.
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> Daniel
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