nasal consonant

There are also other kinds of nasal consonants in some languages.

Ewe is therefore sometimes said to have no nasal consonants.

Nasal consonants can also affect the articulation of a vowel.

An example of the latter would be The vast majority of languages have nasal consonants.

The reason why these nasal consonants have their own symbol is their frequency in the world's languages.

Nasal consonants include flaps, although these are rarely phonemic.

So nasal consonants sound both like sonorants and like obstruents.

These interact with nasal consonants, described below.

Although Supyire contains nasal consonants, there is considerable debate over their phonemic status.

The system is somewhat inconsistent, especially in loan-words, around consonant clusters and with word final nasal consonants.

There are three phonemic tones and syllabic nasal consonants.

Stops are voiced when following nasal consonants.

Ditidaht is thus one of only a handful of languages in the world that do not have nasal consonants.

The only codas allowed are nasal consonants.

There are no geminates after nasal consonants.

A select few languages use voiceless nasal consonants.

Certain nasal consonants do (m, n) and can end words depending on the dialect().

In general, vowels in Irish are nasalized when adjacent to nasal consonants.

Nasalization: Vowels followed by nasal consonants are usually nasalized.

The incidence of final nasal consonants is very low, however, and it is not possible to conclusively state this as a restriction.

When final nasal consonants are deleted, nasality is maintained on the preceding vowel.

Nasalization is phonemic in Kriol, caused by the deletion of final nasal consonants.

Gothic has three nasal consonants, of which one is an allophone of the others, found only in complementary distribution with them.

Vowels may also be nasalized, in the environment of nasal consonants, but nasalization is non-contrastive.

See Wapan for the historical development of asymmetrical nasal consonants in West Africa.