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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Saturday, September 20, 2003, 1:52
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"