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Many West African languages have a nasal flap [ɾ̃] (or [n̆]) as an allophone of /ɾ/ before a nasal vowel; voiced retroflex nasal flaps are common intervocalic allophones of /ɳ/ in South Asian languages. A nasal trill [r̃] has been described from some dialects of Romanian, and is posited as an intermediate historical step in rhotacism.
A classic example of a nasal carrying a tone: To form a locative from a noun, one of the possible procedures involves simply suffixing a low tone [ŋ̩] to the noun. To form the locative meaning "on the grass" one suffixes -ng to the word [ʒʷɑŋ̩] jwang ‡ [_ ¯ ], giving jwanng ‡ [_ ¯ _ ] [ʒʷɑŋ̩ŋ̩], with the two last syllabic nasals having contrasting tones.
A nasal voice is a type of speaking voice characterized by speech with a "nasal" quality. [ clarification needed ] It can also occur naturally because of genetic variation. Nasal speech can be divided into hypo-nasal and hyper-nasal.
Nasal clicks are click consonants pronounced with nasal airflow.All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial ʘ) have nasal variants, and these are attested in four or five phonations: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, murmured (breathy voiced), and—in the analysis of Miller (2011)—glottalized.
The nặng tone starts mid or low-mid and rapidly falls in pitch (32 or 21). It starts with tense voice that becomes increasingly tense until the vowel ends in a glottal stop closure. This tone is noticeably shorter than the other tones. Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) describes this as "chesty-heavy"; Nguyễn (1997) describes it as "constricted".
long nasal "e" for met with high tone ĩ ˩ į: nasal "ee" for see with low tone ĩ ˥ į́: nasal "ee" for see with high tone ĩ ː ˩ įį: long nasal "ee" for see with low tone ĩ ː ˥ į́į́: long nasal "ee" for see with high tone õ ˩ ǫ: nasal "oa" for story with low tone õ ˥ ǫ́: nasal "oa" for story with high tone õ ː ˩ ǫǫ ...
Gǀui also has breathy-voice vowels, but they are described as part of the tone system. Only the five modal vowels /a e i o u/ occur in monomoraic (CV or V) roots, which except for the noun χò 'thing, place, case' are all grammatical morphemes. These are reduced to three nasal vowels /ã ẽ õ/ after nasal consonants, including the ...
A meantone temperament is a regular temperament, distinguished by the fact that the correction factor to the Pythagorean perfect fifths, given usually as a specific fraction of the syntonic comma, is chosen to make the whole tone intervals equal, as closely as possible, to the geometric mean of the major tone and the minor tone. Historically ...