LINGUIST List 5.186

Sat 19 Feb 1994

Disc: Labiodental Nasals

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1. John E. Koontz, Re: 5.175 Sum-Nasals
2. , RE: 5.175 Sum-Nasals

Message 1: Re: 5.175 Sum-Nasals

> From: nreidmetz.une.edu.au(Nick Reid)
> Geoff Pullum informed me that "Althought the IPA created a special symbol
> just in case, it is common knowledge among phoneticians that this was a
> policy mistake. No language has ever been found that has a phonemic
> labiodental nasal."

Why would it be a policy mistake to include in a
phon<emphasis on>etic<empahsis off> transcription system a symbol for
transcribing a phone that is never a phon<emphasis on>eme<emphasis off>?

Message 2: RE: 5.175 Sum-Nasals

According to Maddieson's book "Patterns of Sounds",
the language Teke has labiodental nasals, distinctively
from bilabial, alveolar, palatal and velar.

--- John Coleman