Re: polysynthetic languages
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 20, 2003, 1:52 |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:36:25 -0400, Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
wrote:
>It's nice to hear of someone using prenasalized stops in their
>conlang. (I've been thinking for a couple of weeks of asking whether
>anyone here used them.)
Lindiga has prenasalized stops and fricatives, often corresponding with
voiced sounds in words borrowed from other languages.
mpêrsi ["mbez`i] "beige" < Eng.
ntumi ["ndumi] "loathsome, obnoxious"
nsêla ["nzela] "sky"
rnseki ["n`z`egi] "nice, pleasant"