[Lexicog] power of nasal consonant

['Jim Roberts' jim_roberts@sil.org [lexicographylist]]

Yes, I'm sure that the phenomenon is not as rare as you might think. I have examples from Mawa [mcw], a Chadic language of Chad, wherein a stop (plosive), voiced or voiceless, becomes a nasal when in contact with a nasal:


 


/ɟoop-no/ 'cover-me' -> [ɟoomno]


/at-no/ 'stomach-my' -> [anno]



/pooc-ne/ 'take.care.of-us' -> [pooɲne]


/kog-no/ 'scratch-me' -> [koŋno]


/kuɟ-ne/ 'extinguish-us' -> [kuɲne]


 


cf. /bəra-no/ 'throat-my' -> [bərano]


 


However, this is perceived by native speakers as a 'superficial' effect (they are produced by a postlexical rule from the perspective of theory), and is not reflected in the practical orthography: the speakers prefer to write these consonants as stops orthographically, not as nasals, even though that is the way they are pronounced in this context.


 


Jim Roberts


 


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Another example, briefly, from Konni of Ghana, again affecting /r/:


/gim-ri/ à [ginni]  ‘sparrow-the’  (cf. /daa-ri/ à [daari] ‘day-the’)


 


I’m sure there are more around the world!


 


Mike


 


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Hanjabam Surmango Shama:


 


In response to your question:  can a nasal consonant affect a oral consonant as the later becomes a nasal? 


 


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.


 


In Báxoje Jiwére language (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska), a Siouan language:


-- rúmi (buy s.t.) ~ hinnúmiwi  (we buy it)  [hin-...wi (we) + rúmi (buy) 


-- Where two vowels are separated by “h, w, y, or glottal stop (^)” nasalization goes across both vowels.  Note:


    pahí (sharp) > pahínhin (thorn); 


    yán (sleep)  >  ayán ~ anyán (bed; lay on)


    ki^ín (gamble) > kin^ín (gamble; try) 


 


 


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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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