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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Interesting data!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I can see the /pn/ </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> [m] preserves both the place of the /p/ and the nasality of the /n/. There’s different ways this could be formally analyzed with rules or constraints. Whether 1) /p/ </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> [m] before /n/, and then /n/ disappears, or 2) /n/ </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> [m] after /p/, and then /p/ disappears, or 3) some other merging operation, needs more data to figure out. Are there other cases similar to this, or is it limited to this one word?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Also interesting is the directionality. It seems you do NOT get:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">ma </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">tapna</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811"> tam </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> lak-i 'He comes very slowly'.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Right?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">As for further insights/analysis, it depends on what your goal is. If you’d like to understand it more deeply, perhaps for a write-up or paper, then great – keep asking, and perhaps someone could guide you through the questions you’d need to answer to figure out the process. If it’s just to have a general idea of what’s going on, then you may not need much more. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Grace to you,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mike Cahill</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 28, 2015 4:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lexicog] power of nasal consonant</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_18431"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks to all for your response to my query. I would like to discuss a little more in the same line by citing examples from Manipuri/Meithei (T-B language). Let's consider the following:</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_18875"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_18883"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">1. ma </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811"> tapna </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">tapna </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> lak-i</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_18978"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> 3sg be.slow-Adv be.slow-Adv come-Asp 'He comes very slowly'.</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_20150"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_20166"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">In (1) tapna tapna 'very slowly (approx.)' is a case of duplication and this can be contracted in connected speech as in (2) below.</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_20507"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_20508"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(2) ma </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">tam </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">tapna</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> lak-i 'He comes very slowly'.</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21088"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21089"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">In (2), the first word of the duplication is seen as having 'm' (nasal) as the final segment. </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_22005"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">How does /</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">p</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">/ changes to /</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">m</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">/, I suppose, is due to the influence of the following /n/. </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21755"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21877"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Further, the contraction may be extended to the second member of the duplication as in (3)</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21878"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21882"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(3) ma </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">tam </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9d1811">tam</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> lak-i 'He comes very slowly'</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21752"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_21753"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Any other possible explanation is sought.</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_22002"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_22003"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_22054"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">surmangol</span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_18884"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446008040280_18885"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">--------------------------------- Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma Department of Linguistics Manipur University, Canchipur Imphal 795 003 MANIPUR</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 6:35 AM, "Patrick C <a href="mailto:patrick.chew@gmail.com">patrick.chew@gmail.com</a> [lexicographylist]" <<a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><div><div id="yiv8133629589"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><div id="yiv8133629589ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="yiv8133629589ygrp-msg"><div id="yiv8133629589ygrp-text"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">To dovetail with previous answers, Korean shows the following:<br><br>Sino-Korean</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">sam ri > sam ni "three ri ('miles')" (</span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:black">三里</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">삼리</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">haeng-ri > haeng-ni "luggage" (</span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:black">行李</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">행리</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">) [obs.?]</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">native-Korean:</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><-pnita> = [-mnida] -</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">ㅂ니다</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">formal polite verb ending, eg:</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">ha- "to do" > hamnida </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">합니다</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">other verb endings that cause the same sandhi effect:</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><-ni> : <ka-ss-ni> = [kanni] (</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">갔니</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> "(you) went?")</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><-ne> : <eops-ne> = [eomne] (</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">없네</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> "there isn't any...")</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><-neun-> : <meok-neun-de> = [meongneunde] (</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black">먹는데</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> "even though X eat(s)")</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">cheers,</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">-Patrick</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br>Apologies for typos - typed with my thumbs and subject to autocorrect in the most amusing of ways. (i.e. on my iPhone)</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Mike Cahill <a href="mailto:Mike_Cahill@sil.org" target="_blank">Mike_Cahill@sil.org</a> [lexicographylist] <<a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</span></p><div id="yiv8133629589yqt15244"><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Another example, briefly, from Konni of Ghana, again affecting /r/:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">/gim-ri/ </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> [ginni] ‘sparrow-the’ (cf. /daa-ri/ </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> [daari] ‘day-the’)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m sure there are more around the world!</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mike</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> <a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lexicog] power of nasal consonant</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">Hanjabam Surmango Shama:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">In response to your question: can a nasal consonant affect a oral consonant as the later becomes a nasal? </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">Yes, a nasal vowel followed by the consonant “r” naturally affects it to sound as an “n.” Further, a nasal vowel will affect a succeeding vowel to sound as a nasual.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">In Báxoje Jiwére language (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska), a Siouan language:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">-- rúmi (buy s.t.) ~ hin<u>númi</u>wi (we buy it) [hin-...wi (we) + rúmi (buy) </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">-- Where two vowels are separated by “h, w, y, or glottal stop (^)” nasalization goes across both vowels. Note:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">pahí (sharp) > pahínhin (thorn); </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue">yán (sleep) > ayán ~ anyán (bed; lay on)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> ki^ín (gamble) > kin^ín (gamble; try)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> <a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank" title="lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</a> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> Tuesday, October 27, 2015 4:58 AM</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> <a href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank" title="lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">yahoogroups</a> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> [Lexicog] power of nasal consonant</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Dear All,</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I invite your suggestions to the point at which I am curious is -- can a nasal consonant affect a oral consonant as the later becomes a nasal?</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">thanks</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">surmangol</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">--------------------------------- Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma Department of Linguistics Manipur University, Canchipur Imphal 795 003 MANIPUR</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br><br></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" 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