Re: New Orthography & Phonology Online

John Cowan wrote:
> Italian uses this as an allophone of /n/ before /f/, as in "inferno", which
> is pronounced [i+fermo] where + = labiodental nasal.
English uses it as an allophone of /m/, as in "emphasis" = [I+f@sIs] (my
dialect), where, as above, [+] = 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:
I believe Spanish does this too?

In Lune^, which I described a while back, I'm considering having that
assimilation PLUS syllabic nasals, so that "un" has evolved to /n=/,
which is homorganic with the following word, i.e., "un poco" would be
something like [m='poko]

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