Talk:Nasal consonant

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Sounds wrong to me. Source needed. FilipeS 21:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Syllabic nasal" redirects to this page but the page doesn't mention syllabic nasals. --TzirTzi (talk) 08:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"(In several American dialects of Spanish, there is no palatal nasal but only a palatalized nasal, [nʲ], as in English canyon.)"

I don't know whether it's true that in "several American dialects of Spanish" there is a palatalised nasal [nʲ], but in the English word canyon there are two different sounds, [n] and [j]: the comparison is wrong. 62.98.100.197 (talk) 20:06, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't there me some mention here (or in the more specific articles like Voiceless bilabial nasal, which currently redirects to the article about the voiced bilabial nasal) of voiceless nasals, as found for example in Yupik languages?--Uanfala (talk) 06:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone please upload sound files for these. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.249.206 (talk) 03:16, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We claimed that "some of the Lakes Plain languages" lack phonetic nasals. However, AFAIK they only lack phonemic nasals, which isn't all that uncommon, so I deleted the claim. Any sources to support it? — kwami (talk) 09:38, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is not right: "Catalan, Occitan, Spanish, and Italian have [m], [n], [ɲ] as phonemes, and [ɱ] and [ŋ] as allophones."

In catalan there is for example "fan" (they do) and "fang" (clay), which are pronounced differently (the consonants are pronounced exactly like they would be in English or German for example). There aren't many words ending with "ng" but there are quite a lot ending in "nc" which are pronunced /ng/ by most speakers.

Examples: sang (blood), reng (row), then there are many words of English origin like "ring", "parking", etc, which are pronounced with /ng/.

Examples with "nc": vinc (I come), cinc (five), tinc (I have), zenc (zinc), venc (I sell). Well, probably hundreds of verbs in singular first person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.4.188.247 (talk) 21:14, 15 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found that Karaja language also has the rare feature of lacking nasals.
Should we add it to the section talking about languages lacking nasals consonants ?
I am @BeKowz — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.196.142.132 (talk) 18:20, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]