[Lexicog] power of nasal consonant

[Kevin Warfel kevin_warfel@sil.org [lexicographylist]]

Mike Cahill has already given one example of this from the Gur language
Konni. I don’t have other examples at hand, but I believe that it is fairly
common in Gur languages of West Africa for an /r/ or an /l/ to be changed
into an /n/ when it ends up adjacent to a nasal consonant across a morpheme
boundary. The example from Konni seems to me to be quite representative of
Gur languages at least in this regard.






Kevin Warfel


Associate Dictionary and Lexicography Services Coordinator


a.k.a. Dictionary Development Coordinator


SIL International






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Dear All,






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?






thanks


surmangol






--------------------------------- Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma Department of
Linguistics Manipur University, Canchipur Imphal 795 003 MANIPUR




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