devoiced "n's

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Davius,
	The words are pronounced
"ama" and "amantzi",
"nica" and "nicantzi"
with the only audible "n"s being the one's I have written here.
John

On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 12:48  PM, Davius Sanctex wrote:

> But, John, the devoicing of sonorants /w, l, y/ in nahuatl occurs in
> __#, __
> [- voiced], if we expect the same patter for /n/ we must devoing of
> /n/ in
> /aman/ and in /aman(tzin)/. Therefore the first "n" in "amantzi" sould
> have
> the same audibility that the second, is it not the case?
>
>