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Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Saturday, August 16, 2008, 16:15
Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@...>: > > > Would [Gw] really be possible? One would expect it to simplify to [w] > > pretty much automatically, at least for human speakers. The [NG] > > sequence looks pretty alien too! > >I don't seem to have any trouble pronouncing either cluster, and I don't >see why >you'd expect otherwise. [Gw] occurs in Spanish words like _agua_, and [NG] >doesn't intuitively strike me as odder than, say, [nz]. >
I didn't see any problem with [NG] either; at least Spanish has a few words with [Nx], "granja" e.g. which at least colloquialy is [Nx] not [nx]; and of course "un [x...] (masc. noun).