Nasalless Languages
| From: | Emily Zilch <emily0@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 11, 2004, 3:21 |
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{ 20040710,1536 | David Peterson } "Ady idfo od these, Ebily?"
http://mails.fju.edu.tw/~phono/handout4.htm lists TEN LANGUAGES WITHOUT
NASALS, which I have updated using Ethnologue
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Ferguson’s “Assumptions about nasals”: primary nasal consonants (PNC):
There are 10 languages without any PNC...
FOUR have no phonemic nasal or nasalized segments of any kind.
1. ROTOKAS [ ROO ] : 4320 speakers, North Solomons - E. Papuan,
Bougainville, W. Bougainvillean, Rotokas
2. QUILEUTE [ QUI ] : 10 speakers out of population of 300, WA-USA,
Chemakuan (isolate)
3. LUSHOOTSEED [ LUT ] : 60 speakers, WA-USA, Salishan, Central Salish,
Twana.
4. MÚRA-PIRAHÃ [MYP] : 150 speakers out of 1500; Amazonas-Brasil,
Muran (isolate)
SIX languages without nasals have prenasalized stops or nasalized
vowels [but no nasals]
Three have nasalized vowels [but no nasals]
5. KPELLE [ KPE ] + [ GKP ]: 487400 speakers in Liberia, 308000 in
Guinea; Niger-Congo, Mande, Western, Central-Southwestern,
Southwestern, Kpelle
6. BARASANA [ BSN ] : 350 in Columbia, possibly also in Brasil;
Tucanoan, Eastern Tucanoan, Central, Southern
7. TUCANO [ TUO ]: 5000 in Brasil & Columbia: Tucanoan, Eastern
Tucanoan, Northern
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
9. APINAYÉ [APN] (Brazil): 800 in Brasil:
Macro-Ge, Ge-Kaingang, Ge, Northwest, Apinaye
One has both prenasalized stops and nasalized vowels [but no nasals]
10. SIRIONÓ [SRQ] (Bolivia): 500 in Bolivia; Tupi, Tupi-Guarani,
Guarayu-Siriono-Jora (II)
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