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Notes on the nasal consonants of Yoruba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Taking them one by one, it is generally agreed that [] are the allophones of /w r j/ occurring only before nasal vowels. Ward (1952) noticed the nasalization of these approximants before nasal vowels but was rather confused by their orthographic forms. We have observed that all instances of [ɲ] occur when [j] is followed by a nasal vowel. This non-syllabic palatal nasal is therefore an allophone of /j/ and it is different from the syllabic one which is homorganic with the following consonant. Examples of this non-syllabic [ɲ] can be seen in the following words:

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , October 1986 , pp. 549 - 552
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1986

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