Re: New Orthography & Phonology Online

"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:

> Another thing -- you have a labiodental nasal as a phoneme (or do you?).
Italian uses this as an allophone of /n/ before /f/, as in "inferno", which
is pronounced [i+fermo] where + = labiodental nasal.  Before consonants
Italian really has only one nasal, which is always homorganic:  [m] before
[p] or [b], [+] before [f], [n] before dentals, [N] before velars.  This
works even across word boundaries:

        con Paulo               /compaulo/
        con Carlo               /coNcarlo/

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