Kristian Jensen wrote:
> AND I'M STILL NOT. Cambodian, Thai, Vietnamese, and a whole lot of
> other Austro-Asiatic and Daic languages have *MORE* PHONEMIC
> _Nasals_ than _Voiced Stops_!!!! What in the world is so hard to
> believe about that?! What do you all have against the languages of
> Southeast Asia?! 8-)
Hmm, fascinating. I'd never heard about those having more phonemic
nasals than stops. That's quite intriguing.
> IMO, there is absolutely nothing unusual about having more voiced
> nasal stops than voiced oral stops.
Except that they ARE unusual, in that they are uncommon.