Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 23, 2000, 20:40 |
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At 22:17 -0500 15.2.2000, Roger Mills wrote:
> If you mean /m n N/ etc. versus /mb, nd, Ng/ etc. -- yes, Fijian and no
>doubt other Melanesian langs, some "minor" ones in eastern Indonesia both
>nowadays and historically, Proto-Polynesian---these are just my particular
>hobby-horses. Surely elsewhere in the world, too. Roger
Central Tibetan (except Hlasa) too. It doesn't have any non-prenasalized
voiced stops, though, and prenasalized stops and the so-called deep tone
can only occur together, so maybe voicing and prenasalization are
conditioned by the tone here (although historically it is the other way
around: prenasalization preserved voicing and induced the extra-deep tone.)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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