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For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. For the distinction between <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ /</span> and ⟨<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"> </span>⟩, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.</div></div> </div> <p><b>Prenasalized consonants</b> are <a href="/wiki/Phonetics" title="Phonetics">phonetic</a> sequences of a <a href="/wiki/Nasal_consonant" title="Nasal consonant">nasal</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Obstruent" title="Obstruent">obstruent</a> (or occasionally a non-nasal <a href="/wiki/Sonorant" title="Sonorant">sonorant</a>) that behave <a href="/wiki/Phonology" title="Phonology">phonologically</a> like single <a href="/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonants</a>. The primary reason for considering them to be single consonants, rather than clusters as in English <i>finger</i> or <i>member</i>, lies in their behaviour; however, there may also be phonetic correlates which distinguish prenasalized consonants from clusters. Because of the additional difficulty in both articulation and timing, prenasalized fricatives and sonorants are not as common as prenasalized stops or affricates, and the presence of the former implies the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only three languages (<a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fula_language" title="Fula language">Fula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Selayarese" class="mw-redirect" title="Selayarese">Selayarese</a>) have been reported to have a <a href="/wiki/Contrast_(linguistics)" title="Contrast (linguistics)">contrast</a> between prenasalized consonants (<sup>N</sup>C) and their corresponding clusters (NC).<sup id="cite_ref-Feinstein_syllable_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feinstein_syllable-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Riehl_thesis_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riehl_thesis-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In most languages, when a prenasalized consonant is described as "voiceless", it is only the oral portion that is voiceless, and the nasal portion is modally <a href="/wiki/Voiced" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced">voiced</a>. Thus, a language may have "voiced" <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐb<span class="wrap"> </span>ⁿd<span class="wrap"> </span>ᶯɖ<span class="wrap"> </span>ᶮɟ<span class="wrap"> </span>ᵑɡ<span class="wrap"> </span>ᶰɢ]</span> and "voiceless" <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐp<span class="wrap"> </span>ⁿt<span class="wrap"> </span>ᶯʈ<span class="wrap"> </span>ᶮc<span class="wrap"> </span>ᵑk<span class="wrap"> </span>ᶰq]</span>. However, in some <a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiwanese language">Taiwanese</a>) dialects, voiced consonants are preceded by voiceless prenasalization: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐ̥b<span class="wrap"> </span>ⁿ̥d<span class="wrap"> </span>ⁿ̥ɺ<span class="wrap"> </span>ᵑ̊ɡ]</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Yeyi_language" title="Yeyi language">Yeyi</a> has prenasalized <a href="/wiki/Ejective" class="mw-redirect" title="Ejective">ejectives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Adzera_language" title="Adzera language">Adzera</a> has a <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ⁿʔ/</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prenasalized stops may be distinguished from <b>post-oralized</b> or <b>post-stopped nasals</b> (orally released nasals), such as the <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[mᵇ<span class="wrap"> </span>nᵈ<span class="wrap"> </span>ɲᶡ<span class="wrap"> </span>ŋᶢ]</span> of <a href="/wiki/Acehnese_language" title="Acehnese language">Acehnese</a> and similar sounds (including voiceless <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[mᵖ]</span>) in many dialects of Chinese.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (At least in the Chinese case, nasalization, in some dialects, continues in a reduced degree to the vowel, indicating that the consonant is partially <a href="/wiki/Denasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Denasal">denasalized</a>, rather than actually having an oral release.) No language is believed to contrast the two types of consonant, which are distinguished primarily by a difference in timing (a brief nasal followed by longer stop, as opposed to a longer nasal followed by brief stop).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Geographic_distribution"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Geographic distribution</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Africa"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Africa</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#East_Asia"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">East Asia</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Europe"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Europe</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#South_America"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">South America</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#South_Asia"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">South Asia</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Oceania"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span> <span class="toctext">Oceania</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Australia"><span class="tocnumber">1.7</span> <span class="toctext">Australia</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Transcription"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Transcription</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Sources"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Geographic_distribution">Geographic distribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geographic distribution" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Africa">Africa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Africa" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bantu_languages" title="Bantu languages">Bantu languages</a> are famous for their prenasalized stops (the "nt" in "Bantu" is an example), but similar sounds occur across Africa and around the world. <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a>'s politician <a href="/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah" title="Kwame Nkrumah">Kwame Nkrumah</a> had a prenasalized stop in his name, as does the capital of <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a>, <a href="/wiki/N%27Djamena" title="N'Djamena">N'Djamena</a> (African prenasalized stops are often written with <a href="/wiki/Apostrophe" title="Apostrophe">apostrophes</a> in Latin script transcription although this may sometimes indicate <a href="/wiki/Syllabic_consonant" title="Syllabic consonant">syllabic</a> nasals instead). The sound <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<sup>ŋ͡m</sup>g͡b]</span> can also be found in approximately 90 languages in Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="East_Asia">East Asia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: East Asia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a> languages, such as <a href="/wiki/Teochew_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Teochew dialect">Teochew</a>, prenasalized stops are also found. The prenasalized stops in the vernacular readings of Southern Min languages evolved not from the different <a href="/wiki/Middle_Chinese" title="Middle Chinese">Middle Chinese</a> initials and thus are historically different from the voiced obstruents found in <a href="/wiki/Wu_Chinese" title="Wu Chinese">Wu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Xiang_Chinese" title="Xiang Chinese">Xiang</a> languages.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prenasalized consonants are widely utilized in the <a href="/wiki/Loloish_languages" title="Loloish languages">Loloish languages</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Lolo%E2%80%93Burmese" class="mw-redirect" title="Lolo–Burmese">Lolo–Burmese</a> family, such as <a href="/wiki/Nuosu_language" title="Nuosu language">Yi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Naxi_language" title="Naxi language">Naxi</a>. The following table illustrates the prenasalized consonants in northern Yi. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <caption>Prenasalized consonants in Northern Yi </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Yi_script" title="Yi script">Yi Character</a></th> <th scope="col">Official <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a></th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a></th> <th scope="col">Meaning </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Yi-language text"><span lang="ii">ꂃ</span></span></td> <td><span title="Yi-language romanization"><i lang="ii-Latn"><b>nb</b>o</i></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐbo˧]</span></td> <td>skirt </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Yi-language text"><span lang="ii">ꅝ</span></span></td> <td><span title="Yi-language romanization"><i lang="ii-Latn"><b>nd</b>o</i></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ⁿdo˧]</span></td> <td>drink </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Yi-language text"><span lang="ii">ꈾ</span></span></td> <td><span title="Yi-language romanization"><i lang="ii-Latn"><b>mg</b>e</i></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵑɡɤ˧]</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buckwheat" title="Buckwheat">buckwheat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Yi-language text"><span lang="ii">ꌅ</span></span></td> <td><span title="Yi-language romanization"><i lang="ii-Latn"><b>nz</b>y</i></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ⁿd͡zz̩˧]</span></td> <td>control </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Yi-language text"><span lang="ii">ꎧ</span></span></td> <td><span title="Yi-language romanization"><i lang="ii-Latn"><b>nr</b>y</i></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ⁿɖ͡ʐʐ̩˧]</span></td> <td>wine, <a href="/wiki/Liquor" title="Liquor">liquor</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Yi-language text"><span lang="ii">ꐳ</span></span></td> <td><span title="Yi-language romanization"><i lang="ii-Latn"><b>nj</b>i</i></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ⁿd͡ʑʑ̩˧]</span></td> <td>quick, fast </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The prenasalized stops also occur in several branches of the <a href="/wiki/Hmong%E2%80%93Mien" class="mw-redirect" title="Hmong–Mien">Hmong–Mien</a> language family of Southern China and Southeast Asia. </p><p>In dialects of northern <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japan</a>, standard voiced stops are prenasalized, and voiceless stops are voiced. For example, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/itiɡo/</span> "strawberry" is <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[it̠͡ɕiɡo]</span> in most of the south, but <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[id̠͡ʑɨᵑɡo]</span> in much of the north. Prenasalized stops are also reconstructed for <a href="/wiki/Old_Japanese" title="Old Japanese">Old Japanese</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Europe">Europe</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Europe" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Modern_Greek_phonology" title="Modern Greek phonology">Greek</a> the orthographic sequences μπ, ντ γκ and γγ are often pronounced as prenasalized voiced stops <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐb]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ⁿd]</span>, and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵑɡ]</span>, respectively, especially in formal speech and among older speakers. Among younger Athenian speakers the prenasalization often disappears and in fast speech the voiced stop may be replaced by a fricative. <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_America">South America</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: South America" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Guaraní language">Guaraní language</a> has a set of prenasalized stops which are alternate allophonically with simple nasal continuants; they appear only within a word, to the left of a stressed vowel that is oral. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_Asia">South Asia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: South Asia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Indo-Aryan languages">Indo-Aryan languages</a> <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dhivehi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhivehi language">Dhivehi</a> have prenasalized stops. <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_script" title="Sinhala script">Sinhala script</a> has prenasalized versions of <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_plosive" title="Voiced velar plosive">g</a>/</span>, /<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolo-palatal_affricate" title="Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate">ʥ</a>/, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_plosive" title="Voiced retroflex plosive">ɖ</a>/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced dental plosive">d̪</a>/</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span>. Sinhala is one of only three languages reported to have a <a href="/wiki/Contrast_(linguistics)" title="Contrast (linguistics)">contrast</a> between prenasalized consonants and their corresponding clusters, along with <a href="/wiki/Fula_language" title="Fula language">Fula</a> and <a href="/wiki/Selayarese" class="mw-redirect" title="Selayarese">Selayarese</a>, although the nature of this contrast is debated.<sup id="cite_ref-Feinstein_syllable_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feinstein_syllable-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Riehl_thesis_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riehl_thesis-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Four-way contrast in Sinhala<sup id="cite_ref-Feinstein_syllable_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feinstein_syllable-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Sinhala script</th> <th><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISO_15919" title="ISO 15919">ISO 15919</a></th> <th>Translation </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si">කද</span></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="si-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[ka.d̪ə]</a></span></td> <td>kada</td> <td>shoulder pole </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si">කන</span></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="si-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[ka.nə]</a></span></td> <td>kana</td> <td>ear </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si">කඳ</span></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="si-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[ka.ⁿd̪ə]</a></span></td> <td>kan̆da</td> <td>trunk </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si">කන්ද</span></span></td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="si-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[kan̪.d̪ə]</a></span></td> <td>kanda</td> <td>hill </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Spectrogram-prenasalized-consonant.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Spectrogram-prenasalized-consonant.png" decoding="async" width="432" height="252" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="432" data-file-height="252"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 432px;height: 252px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Spectrogram-prenasalized-consonant.png" data-width="432" data-height="252" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>A prenasalized consonant <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐb]</span> in Sri Lanka Malay <i>ga.mbar</i> has a shorter nasal segment and a longer preceding vowel</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Spectrogram-non-prenasalized-consonant.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Spectrogram-non-prenasalized-consonant.png" decoding="async" width="432" height="252" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="432" data-file-height="252"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 432px;height: 252px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Spectrogram-non-prenasalized-consonant.png" data-width="432" data-height="252" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>An <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[mb]</span> cluster in Sri Lanka Malay <i>sam.bal</i> has a longer nasal and a shorter preceding vowel</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Malay_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Malay language">Sri Lankan Malay</a> has been in contact with Sinhala a long time and has also developed prenasalized stops. The spectrograms on the right show the word <i>gambar</i> with a prenasalized stop and the word <i>sambal</i> with a sequence of nasal+voiced stop, yet not prenasalized. The difference in the length of the [m] part is clearly visible. The nasal in the prenasalized word is much shorter than the nasal in the other word. </p><p>This phonetic information is complemented by phonological evidence: The first vowel in gaambar is lengthened, which only happens in open syllables in Sri Lanka Malay. The <a href="/wiki/Syllabification" title="Syllabification">syllabification</a> of gambar must be ga.mbar then, and the syllabification of sambal sam.bal. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oceania">Oceania</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Oceania" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>An example of the unitary behavior of prenasalized stops is provided by <a href="/wiki/Fijian_language" title="Fijian language">Fijian</a>. In this language, as in many in <a href="/wiki/Melanesia" title="Melanesia">Melanesia</a> and also reconstructed for <a href="/wiki/Proto-Oceanic_language" title="Proto-Oceanic language">Proto-Oceanic</a>, there is a series of <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless consonant">voiceless</a> stops, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[p,<span class="wrap"> </span>t,<span class="wrap"> </span>k]</span>, and a series of prenasalized stops, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐb,<span class="wrap"> </span>ⁿd,<span class="wrap"> </span>ᵑɡ]</span>, but there are no simple <a href="/wiki/Voiced_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced consonant">voiced</a> stops, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[b,<span class="wrap"> </span>d,<span class="wrap"> </span>ɡ]</span>. In addition, Fijian allows prenasalized stops at the beginning of a word, but it does not allow other consonant sequences. Thus the prenasalized stops behave like ordinary consonants. In some <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_languages" title="Oceanic languages">Oceanic languages</a>, prenasalisation of voiced consonants depends on the environment. For example, in <a href="/wiki/Raga_language" title="Raga language">Raga</a>, b and d are prenasalized when the preceding consonant is nasal (<i>noⁿda</i> "ours"), but not elsewhere (<i>gida</i> "us"). <a href="/wiki/Uneapa_language" title="Uneapa language">Uneapa</a> has prenasalization word-medially, but not word-initially (<i>goᵐbu</i> "yam"). </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Tok_Pisin" title="Tok Pisin">Tok Pisin</a> is spoken by people in <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> who have similar phonologies in their languages, voiced consonants are prenasalized. For example, the preposition <i>bilong</i> (from English <i>belong</i>) is pronounced <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐbiloŋ]</span> by many <a href="/wiki/Melanesians" title="Melanesians">Melanesians</a>. The prenasalization behaves as a phonetic detail of voicing, rather than a separate segment. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Australia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Prenasalized stops are also found in Australia. The <a href="/wiki/Arrernte_language" title="Arrernte language">Eastern Arrernte language</a> has both prenasalized stops and <a href="/wiki/Nasal_release" title="Nasal release">prestopped nasals</a>, but does not have any other word-initial <a href="/wiki/Consonant_cluster" title="Consonant cluster">consonant clusters</a>. Compare <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[mʷarə]</span> "good", <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵐpʷaɻə]</span> "make", <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ᵖmʷaɻə]</span> "<a href="/wiki/Coolamon_(vessel)" title="Coolamon (vessel)">coolamon</a>". </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Transcription">Transcription</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Transcription" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>When unambiguous, prenasalized consonants may simply be transcribed e.g. ⟨<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">mb</span>⟩. In the IPA, a tie bar may be used to specify that these are single segments, as in ⟨<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">m͜b</span>⟩. Another common transcription practice is to make the nasal superscript: ⟨<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">ᵐb</span>⟩. An old convention of the IPA was to mark the nasal as 'short' until the short and the nonsyllabic signs diverged, as in ⟨<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">m̆b</span>⟩.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Preploded_nasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Preploded nasal">Preploded nasal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin_digraphs#M" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Latin digraphs">List of Latin digraphs#M</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Prenasalized_consonant&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <style 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Daniel (1995), "Optional, conditional, and obligatory prenasalization in Bafanji", <i>Journal of West African Languages</i>, <b>25</b>: <span class="nowrap">57–</span>62</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+West+African+Languages&rft.atitle=Optional%2C+conditional%2C+and+obligatory+prenasalization+in+Bafanji&rft.volume=25&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E57-%3C%2Fspan%3E62&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Silverman&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APrenasalized+consonant" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>    </section></div> <noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=mobile&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" 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