Nasal glide
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A nasal glide is a semivowel
('glide') which is nasalized. It may be the
or the
In Bini, the nasalized allophones of the glides /j/ and /w/ are nasal stops, [ɲ] and [ŋʷ].
Semivowel
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel is a sound, such as English or , that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.-Classification:...
('glide') which is nasalized. It may be the
or the
- nasal labio-velar approximantNasal labio-velar approximantThe nasal labio-velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩, that is, a w with a tilde.The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is w~....
[w̃]
In Bini, the nasalized allophones of the glides /j/ and /w/ are nasal stops, [ɲ] and [ŋʷ].