Re: Futurese

Mathias wrote:

>Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
>>>>
>Fijian:  p (loan words) /p/;  t, k; b /mb/, d /nd/ q /Ng/; m, n, g /N/; v
>/B/, c /D/, w y, s, r, l.. (There is one digraph, however: |dr| [ndr]. A
>possible improvement would be to switch q and g, but it's too late now; in
>any case |q| corresponds to /gw, kw, Ngw/ in the non-dictionary dialects,
so
>it's not all that bad.)
><<<
>this is interesting. a zillion thanks. i've been planning to add /mb/, /nd/
and
>/ng/ to my conlang but i didn't dare because it lacks pure /b/, /d/ and /g/
and
>i thought no natlang had this strange feature. now you inform me that
Fijian
>does.

Not only that, but it makes for interesting doublets and semantic variants--
v ~mb, t ~nd, k ~Ng, c[D] ~s, r ~ndr