[m]→[ã]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5
Bilabial nasal to Nasalized open front unrounded vowel
In Southern, Pu-Xian and Hainan Min, nasal codas after open vowels disappeared and left the vowel nasalized. Literary readings keep the coda, which gives pairs of readings.
Phonetic Effects
Nasalization, Coda Loss
Language Examples
三 MC sam [-m]→saⁿ [sã] (vernacular)— The literary reading keeps the coda: sam.
Related Transformations
More Nasalization Shifts
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