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voiceless nasal consonants

From:# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
Date:Saturday, December 18, 2004, 21:25
I was just talking to someone changing each voiced consonants for the
voiceless equivalent (b=p, g=k, d=t) and I thought about the fact that I
didn't know how was pronounced voiceless nasals.

after I remarked that I don't even know and I've never heard about a
language using such sounds.

Does someone has knowledge about a tongue using voiceless nasals?

I've been able to pronounce some but I've been unable to pronouce clearly a
difference between voiced and voiceless labiodental, retroflex, palatal and
velar nasals

So I imagine voiceless nasals must be billabial or
"dento-alveo-postalveolar"


Are there natlangs where it exists?

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>