Universal #939

Legacy number: 939

 Number  936
 Original  Secondary nasal consonants are, apart from borrowing and analogical formations, always the result of diachronic developments from clusters.
 Standardized  Secondary nasal consonants are, apart from borrowing and analogical formations, always the result of diachronic developments from clusters.
 Keywords  consonant, nasal
 Domain  phonology
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Ferguson 1963
 Source  Ferguson 1963: 58 (IX)

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Discussion
Notes
A Secondary nasal consonant (SNC) is a nasal consonant phoneme the most characteristic phoneme of which is not a simple voiced nasal (Ferguson 1963: 56-7).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
A Secondary nasal consonant (SNC) is a nasal consonant phoneme the most characteristic phoneme of which is not a simple voiced nasal (Ferguson 1963: 56-7).