devoiced "n"

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So, leaving orthographic omissions aside, there is a big difference
between "n" devoicing (which shouldn't really be called dropping)
and "i" dropping (which really drops out or assimilates).
John

On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 09:22  AM, Michael Mccafferty wrote:

> N-dropping, as you know, John, is a big-time Nahuatl characteristic. It
> actually occurs quite rarely in "classical" Nahuatl, i.e., those n's
> show
> up in the texts. When an n does not appear where it is expected, a
> perusal
> of the entire text allows one to more or less safely say whether its
> absence in the case of this particular word is an aspect of the dialect
> that is being recorded or is simply a scribal error, i.e.,
> orthographic or
> aural.
>