Alveolar nasal Totally Explained

Everything about The Alveolar Nasal totally explained

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 (for example, Samoan). There are some languages (for example, Rotokas) that lack both m and n.

Features

Features of the alveolar nasal:

Its manner of articulation is stop, which means it's produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.
Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it's articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
Its phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
It is a nasal consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the nose.
It is a central consonant, which means it's produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it's articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Catalan		innecessari	[innəsəˈsaɾi]	'unnecessary'	See Catalan phonology
Chinese	Mandarin	難/nán	[nan˧˥]	'difficult'	See Standard Mandarin
Czech		na	[na]	'on'	See Czech phonology
Dutch		nacht	[nɑxt]	'night'	See Dutch phonology
English		nice	[naɪs]	'nice'	See English phonology
Finnish		annan	[ɑnːɑn]	'I give'	See Finnish phonology
Georgian		კანი	[ˈkʼɑni]	'skin'
German		Lanze	[lantsə]	'lance'	See German phonology
Greek		νάμα	[ˈnama]	'communion wine'	See Modern Greek phonology
Hindi		नया	[nəjaː]	'new'
Hungarian		nagyi	[nɒɟi]	'grandma'	See Hungarian phonology
Italian		nano	[ˈnano]	'dwarf'	See Italian phonology
Japanese		反対/hantai	[hantai]	'opposite'	See Japanese phonology
Korean		나/na	[na]	'I'	See Korean phonology
Ngwe	Mmockngie dialect	[nøɣə̀]		'sun'
Norwegian		mann	[mɑnː]	'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	[nɛ]	'drive sidewards'	See Vietnamese phonology

Further Information

Get more info on 'Alveolar Nasal'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://alveolar_nasal.totallyexplained.com">Alveolar nasal Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.