Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

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].

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Andreas Johansson

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