Re: WC8 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)

JS Bangs wrote:
> It's rather curious that CN is disallowed, since CN is commoner cross-
> linguistically than NC, which you show above. In the languages that I know
of
> with initial NC sequences they are treated as monophonemic prenasalized
stops.

Agreed. At least fricative+nasal is fairly easy, f/v+n, m,J,N-- s or S+...--
ts or dz+....--  x/G+ doesn't come tripping off the tongue, but symmetry
might demand them.  Or not. :-)))

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