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    [n͡ŋǃʼ] etc. The orthographic b in mb is the voiced plosive [mb]. Prenasalisation occurs in several contexts, including on roots with the class 9 prefix...
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  • stops behave like ordinary consonants. In some Oceanic languages, prenasalisation of voiced consonants depends on the environment. For example, in Raga...
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    consonant, optionally preceded by a homorganic nasal consonant (so-called "prenasalisation", described in more detail below) and optionally followed by the consonant...
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    these are written ⟨yk⟩ /ɡ̟/, ⟨nyk⟩ /ⁿɡ̟/ (a prenasalised stop—see Prenasalisation below), ⟨nyng⟩ /ŋ̟/. Most Australian languages do not distinguish between...
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  • forward release are usually written according to their temporal order: Prenasalisation is always written first (⟨ɴɢ͡ǀ⟩ = ⟨ɴǀ͡ɢ⟩ = ⟨ɴǀ̬⟩), and the non-lingual...
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  • are very rarely, if ever, prenasalised. In rapid and casual speech, prenasalisation is generally rarer, and voiced stops may be lenited to fricatives....
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    zindinga, in which all consonants are affricates and fricatives). Prenasalisation of consonants is indicated with a variation on (n) disconnected from...
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  • two ways, reflecting the fact that there is no distinction between prenasalisation and gemination when applied to nasal stops. Luganda is a tonal language...
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  • of prenasalisation, others do not; thus <πομπός> (pompós) 'transmitter' may be realised as either [poˈᵐbos] or [poˈbos]. Furthermore, prenasalisation tends...
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  • adjectives with stems of more than one syllable, it only appears as a prenasalisation of the following consonants: b → mb, d → nd, g → ng, j → nj, l → nd...
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    this rule is noonu which, when written without a diacritic, indicates prenasalisation of a following stop. The vowels are written with diacritical signs...
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  • orthography. The prenasalised consonants are often pronounced without prenasalisation, and thus /ᵐb ⁿd ᶮdʒ ᵑɡ/ are often realised as [b d dʒ ɡ]. Kikuyu has...
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    of a solid dot (glottalisation), in which case the ingungu denotes prenasalisation. "isiBheqe". isibheqe.org. 23 August 2015. Archived from the original...
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  • The prenasalised stops may also be considered voiced with redundant prenasalisation. Fanji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Silverman...
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  • those latter sounds. However, the extent to which someone hears this prenasalisation depends entirely on the speaker, as some stress it more if /ᵐb/, /ⁿd/...
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  • allomorphs in some situations, notably an allomorph that triggers prenasalisation on the initial consonant of the verb stem in some subordinate clauses...
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  • of Ahamb in 2020. Ahamb’s phonology is characterised by distinctive prenasalisation in its plosives and trills. There are three contrastive trills, including...
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  • "tends to have a different phonetic development from the others". Prenasalisation and preaspiration appear as a preinitial. All of these vowels have...
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  • (2018) report the following phonemes from the Razi dialect of Drag-yab. Prenasalisation and preaspiration appear as a preinitial. Suzuki & Nyima (2018) report...
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    variation. Stop phonemes are distinguished by aspiration and voicing / prenasalisation in three places of articulation. Only the glottal fricatives appear...
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  • report the following phonemes from the Tangre Chaya dialect of Larong. Prenasalisation and preaspiration appear as a preinitial. Suzuki & Nyima (2018) report...
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