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Re: Why Not More Nasals!!!!? (was: Is this a realistic phonology?)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 3:25
Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> Even in Europe it possible to find languages which, like Chinese, have no > voiced plosive phonemes but do have nasal phonemes. Scots Gaelic is one > such language - the symbols {b}, {d} and {g} represent unaspirated > voiceless plosives while {p} {t} {c} represent the aspirated series.
True, but unaspirated stops are effectively the same as voiced stops in those languages.