Re: Nasalless Languages
| From: | Adam Walker <carrajena@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 1:17 |
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--- Emily Zilch <emily0@...> wrote:
> Two have prenasalized stops [but no nasals]
> 8. HAKKA [ HAK ] : 33.000.000 in half the world
> (PRC, Brunei, French
> Guiana, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Malaysia,
> Panama, Singapore,
> Suriname, ROC, Thailand... etc.); Sino-Tibetan,
> Chinese
Hakka, no nasals???? What? No the dialects *I've*
heard. Hakka even has syllabic nasals, /N/ and /m/.
Nasals are rampant in the language - initials, finals
and cores. PLUS there are the prenasalized consonants.
I can't recal if Hakka also features nasalized
vowels, but I know it has nasal consonants, /m/, /n/,
/J/ and /N/. This info is just plain screwey.
Adam
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