Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:
>
>
>>Ivetsian, a descendant of Uatakassi, has lots of syllable-initial /N/,
>>because of a sound change that caused /g/ to become /N/ in most
>>environments. I haven't figured out exactly which environments, or
>>what
>>happened to the other instances of /g/ if there are restrictions. I
>>do
>>know that /g/ does not exist in Ivetsian (altho [g] may well exist as
>>an
>>allophone of /k/).
>>
>
>
> In Japanese, /g/ is very often pronounced [N]. It seems to be very common.
Really? I've never noticed that.