Re: CHAT: Colds, Sneezes, and Slack Nasals

Sally Caves wrote:

>  Same with Teonaht _hman_, "bread," and _hmekivar_, "cleaning person."
> Difficult to say with a cold.
IIRC, Livagian has a word you can say which changes how voiceless
nasals are rendered until you say it again.  This is necessarily
for people with colds.  (I forget what the alternative rendering is).

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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)