Re: Identifying a language I heard


Peter T. Daniels schrieb:
> Marc Frisch wrote:
> >
> > > > At one point a woman said what I could describe as "Now. Now." but
> > > > with a nasal vowel. That made me think of a Portuguese word ("nao"
> > > > with a tilde), and I tried to listen more carefully. I heard both
[s]
> > > > and [S] sounds (or pretty close), and some of the [S] came after
> > > > consonants, which I think is rare for Portuguese.
> > >
> > > Everything you say is compatible with Hungarian. I don't know what the
> > > Su dap would be. ("Shut up"?)
> >
> > As far as I know, Hungarian doesn't have nasal vowels, does it?
>
> I don't know; but English doesn't have phonemic ones, and that doesn't
> keep there from being nasal vowels in English speech, does it?

It pretty much stops them from occurring in open syllables, where nasality
would be more easily noticed.

Regards,
Ekkehard


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