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

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.