Re: CHAT: TRANS: something slightly more deep (was: TRANS: flutes)

Roger Mills wrote:
> Sound system:
> Vl. stops           p t c k
> Vd. prenas. stops   mb nd nj Ng("ng")  medial only
Interesting.  Does {c} represent the palatal stop or is it like English
"ch", and same with nj, does the j represent palatal stop or /dZ/?
Interesting that voiced stops exist only after nasals.  They are
considered as single consonants, I take it?

> Semivow/resonants  v  r l   y
So, {v} is pronounced as in Latin, that is, as an English {w}?

> Main morphophonemics to note: "Hardening", whereby nasal+fric > stop, nasal +
> stop or nasal+nasal > Nasalized stop.  And many Cons+r combos result from
> metathesis, as in "amakrale" < /amar+kale/.
Cool.  Clarify something for me, please - would nf become p?  What about
np, would that become mb?  Would nm become mb?  The nasal+nasal ->
nasalized stop makes me wonder if an earlier stage had voiced stops, but
they became nasals when intervocalic.  What happens when you get a form
like s or l followed by a consonant?

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