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| phonetics | |
| phonology | |
| historical linguistics | |
| assimilation | |
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In the , is still seen, especially when the vowel bears Tone marks that would interfer with the superscript tilde. , for example, is more legible in most fonts than . NASALIZED VOWELS See Also: Nasal vowel The most common nasalized sounds are nasal vowels, found in French , Polish , Portuguese , and the Texas "twang". There are occasional cases where vowels show contrasting degrees of nasality. NASALIZED CONSONANTS However, there are also nasalized consonants which contrast with purely oral consonants. Some of the South Arabic Languages have nasalized fricatives, such as , which sounds something like a simultaneous and [z . The sound written ''r'' in Mandarin has an odd history; for example, it has been borrowed into Japanese as both and [n . It seems likely that it was once a nasalized fricative, perhaps a palatal . In the Hupa Velar Nasal , the tongue often does not make full contact, resulting in a nasalized approximant, . This is Cognate with a nasalized in other Athabaskan Languages . In Umbundu , phonemic contrasts with ( Allophonically ) nasalized , and so is likely to be a true fricative rather than an approximant. Note that Nasal Stop s are not nasal''ized,'' rather they are purely nasal. They are called stops because airflow through the mouth is blocked, but air flows freely through the nose. NAREAL CONSONANTS Besides nasalized oral fricatives, there are true nasal fricatives, called ''nareal fricatives,'' sometimes produced by people with speech defects. That is, the turbulence in the airflow characteristic of fricatives is produced not in the mouth but in the nasal passages. A tilde plus trema diacritic is used for this in the Extended IPA : is an alveolar nareal fricative, with no airflow out of the mouth, while is an oral fricative (a {Link without Title} ) with simultaneous nareal frication. DENASALIZATION See Also: Denasal Nasalization may be lost over time. There are also Denasal sounds, which sound like nasals spoken with a head cold, but these are not used in non-pathological speech. SEE ALSO |