variant of Multnomah

[Liland Brajant Ros']

My impression is that in a wide variety of WA/OR languages there is a
tendency to replace nasals with voiced stops. This appears to have been an
accelerating inclination in Lushootseed over the last couple hundred years,
and is of course very marked in Quileute. Seems to be a general regional
tendency. And at least within the Salishan Lushootseed group of dialects it
doesn't seem to have been sudden or across the board. In much Lushootseed
storytelling, I believe, Raven in particular is marked by a tendency to
substitute nasals for the now standard stops, even where there's no
historical justification.

lilEnd (not lilEdd!)

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