Alveolar nasal

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The alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is n, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n.

There are few languages that lack this sound but have an m sound (e.g., Samoan). There are some languages (e.g., Rotokas) that lack both m and n.

Features

Features of the alveolar nasal:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Catalan innecessari [innəsəˈsaɾi] 'unnecessary' See Catalan phonology
Czech na 'on' See Czech phonology
Dutch nacht 'night' See Dutch phonology
English nice 'nice' See English phonology
Finnish annan 'I give' See Finnish phonology
French connexion 'connection' See French phonology
Georgian კა [ˈkʼɑni] 'skin'
German Lanze 'lance' See German phonology
Greek νάμα 'communion wine' See Modern Greek phonology
Hindi नया [nəjaː] 'new'
Hungarian nagyi 'grandma' See Hungarian phonology
Italian nano 'dwarf' See Italian phonology
Japanese 反対/hantai [hantai] 'opposite' See Japanese phonology
Korean /na [na] 'I' See Korean phonology
Mandarin 難/nán 'difficult' See Standard Mandarin
Ngwe Mmockngie dialect [nøɣə̀] 'sun'
Norwegian mann 'man' See Norwegian phonology
Pirahã gíxai [níʔàì] 'you'
Spanish nada [ˈnaða] 'nothing' See Spanish phonology
Swedish nod 'node' See Swedish phonology
Turkish neden [ned̪en] 'reason' See Turkish phonology
Vietnamese ne 'drive sidewards' See Vietnamese phonology

See also

References

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