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Prestopped nasals, and Prenasalized Stop s, occur when the Oral Cavity is closed, and the Nasal Cavity is opened by lowering the Velum , but the timing of these two events does not coincide.

The Slavic Languages are most famous for having prestopped nasals. This can be seen in place names such as the Dniester River . The Russian word for "day", for example, is inflected ''день, дня, дни, дней'' , "day, day's, days, days'". (Here the "palatalized" stops are presented as Laminal Postalveolars .)

Prestopped nasals also found in Australia. The Eastern Arrernte Language has both prenasalized stops and prestopped nasals, but does not have word-initial Consonant Cluster s. Compare "good", "make", "coolamon".

Some languages which are reported to have Unreleased Stop s turn out to have short Voiceless nasal releases instead. Vietnamese is an example.