[Lexicog] power of nasal consonant

[Patrick C patrick.chew@gmail.com [lexicographylist]]

To dovetail with previous answers, Korean shows the following:

Sino-Korean
sam ri > sam ni "three ri ('miles')" (三里 삼리)
haeng-ri > haeng-ni "luggage" (行李 행리) [obs.?]

native-Korean:
<-pnita> = [-mnida] -ㅂ니다
formal polite verb ending, eg:
ha- "to do" > hamnida 합니다

other verb endings that cause the same sandhi effect:
<-ni> : <ka-ss-ni> = [kanni] (갔니 "(you) went?")

<-ne> :  <eops-ne> = [eomne] (없네 "there isn't any...")

<-neun-> : <meok-neun-de> = [meongneunde] (먹는데 "even though X eat(s)")

cheers,
-Patrick





Apologies for typos - typed with my thumbs and subject to autocorrect in the most amusing of ways. (i.e. on my iPhone)
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Mike Cahill Mike_Cahill at sil.org [lexicographylist] <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Another example, briefly, from Konni of Ghana, again affecting /r/:
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> /gim-ri/ à [ginni]  ‘sparrow-the’  (cf. /daa-ri/ à [daari] ‘day-the’)
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> I’m sure there are more around the world!
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> Hanjabam Surmango Shama:
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> In response to your question:  can a nasal consonant affect a oral consonant as the later becomes a nasal?
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> 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.
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> In Báxoje Jiwére language (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska), a Siouan language:
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> -- rúmi (buy s.t.) ~ hinnúmiwi  (we buy it)  [hin-...wi (we) + rúmi (buy)
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> -- Where two vowels are separated by “h, w, y, or glottal stop (^)” nasalization goes across both vowels.  Note:
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>     pahí (sharp) > pahínhin (thorn);
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>     yán (sleep)  >  ayán ~ anyán (bed; lay on)
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>     ki^ín (gamble) > kin^ín (gamble; try) 
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> From: mailto:lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 4:58 AM
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> Dear All,
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> 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?
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> --------------------------------- Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma Department of Linguistics Manipur University, Canchipur Imphal 795 003 MANIPUR
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