nasalized

As we can see, a rule like this in Minoan is minor and self-explanatory if there is only /n/ allowed in syllable codae, even more so if there is no phonemic contrast between a vowel-plus-nasal sequence and a nasalized vowel, whereas the same rule in Mycenaean produces the orthographic train wreck with which specialists must struggle.

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As we can see, a rule like this in Minoan is minor and self-explanatory if there is only /n/ allowed in syllable codae, even more so if there is no phonemic contrast between a vowel-plus-nasal sequence and a nasalized vowel, whereas the same rule in Mycenaean produces the orthographic train wreck with which specialists must struggle.

Linear A treatment of consonant clusters

All part of a Canadian — you need to say it with a nasalized and palatalized sneer — smeer campaign against Us.

Williams criticized on Hickey; story goes national

The n is highly nasalized: the missionaries proposed to express it by

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

Only a handful of whites ever learned more than a smattering of Apache, a complicated tongue in which glottal stops and pitch have semantic meaning, while vowels may be short or long and nasalized or not.

Once They Moved Like the Wind

Only a handful of whites ever learned more than a smattering of Apache, a complicated tongue in which glottal stops and pitch have semantic meaning, while vowels may be short or long and nasalized or not.

Once They Moved Like the Wind

It must be ruled entirely out of court, for instance, in two of the three European examples I have instanced; both nasalized vowels and the Slavic “yeri” are demonstrably of secondary origin in Indo-European.

Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other

Is it only accidental that these dialects are spoken in proximity to French, which makes abundant use of nasalized vowels?

Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other

The Germanic languages as a whole have not developed nasalized vowels.

Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other

They may become aspirated to bh, dh, gh or spirantized or nasalized or they may develop any other peculiarity that keeps them intact as a series and serves to differentiate them from other series.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law