Voiced alveolar nasal

The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonant. Nearly all languages contain this sound. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨n⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by "n" in near and number.

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 Examples 
Language  Word  IPA Meaning Adyghe  /nėfnė  'light' ArabicStandard /nūr 'light' Assyrian ܢܘܪܐ nōra  ] 'mirror' Basque     'I'  Bengali  /naak/nāk  'nose' Catalan      'snow'Chinese Mandarin  /   'difficult' Czech     'on' Dutch     'night' English  nice    'nice'  Finnish      'I give' Georgian  /k'ani 'skin' Greek  /   'communion wine Gujarati  /nahi  'no'  Hawaiian     'to shake' Hebrew  /navon  'wise' Italian     'dwarf' Irish      'peak' Japanese /   'opposite' Khmer       'kingdom'  Korean  /  'Country'KurdishNorthern'animal'Central/gîyânlabarSouthern Kyrgyz  /banan   'banana'Malay      'cooked rice'Malayalam /kanni  'virgin' Maltese     'truncheon' Mapudungun      'enough' NgweMmockngie dialect   'sun'Nepali/nakkal'imitation' Odia  /nāka  'nose'Persianنون/nun[nun]'bread' Pirahã     'you' Polish      'punch' Punjabi ਨੱਕ/nakk'nose' Slovak      'on'  Slovene      'news'  Spanish      'nothing'Swahilindizi[n̩dizi]'banana' Tagalog      'thin'Thai/[nɔːn]'sleep' Turkish      'reason' Tamil  /manasu    'mind', 'heart' Vietnamese     'you're going' Welsh     'grandmother' Western Apache    'cache' West Frisian    'neck' Yi /   'hurt' Zapotec Tilquiapan  nanɨɨ    'lady'

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Category:Consonants