> BPJ:
> <<
> So the questions are: what
> other natlangs have a similar constraint?
> >>
>
> I know absolutely nothing about it, but Mandarin does. Words
> can only end in /n/ or /N/ in Mandarin, whereas in nearby
> Cantonese, you can have a number of coda consonants. I'm
> sure someone on the list can explain how the mother language
> apparently had several coda consonants, and how most of
> them went the way of the dodo in Mandarin.
>
> -David
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