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Nasalization
Nasalization meaning
the articulation of a vowel or continuant consonant in such a way that air flows through the nose at the same time as it flows through the mouth | a particular instance of such change | eclipsis
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Length In Lithuanian, the nosinė (literally, "nasal") mark originally indicated vowel nasalization but about the end of the 17th century nasal vowels gradually evolved into corresponding long non-nasal vowels in most dialects.
Nasalization In both French and Portuguese, nasal vowels eventually developed from sequences of a vowel followed by a nasal consonant (/m/ or /n/).
Nasalization triggered vowel lowering in French, producing the 4 nasal vowels /ɑ̃ ɛ̃ ɔ̃ œ̃/ (although most speakers nowadays pronounce /œ̃/ as /ɛ̃/ ).
Since nasal vowels are phonemic, it simplifies the picture somewhat to assume that nasalization in occlusives is allophonic.
The tilde is used to indicate nasalization, such as in ã /ɐ̃/ and õ /õ/.
This appears to represent a transitional stage before nasalization, and occurs especially in the southerly dialects other than Gascon (which still maintains different final nasals, as in Catalan).
This nasal vowel lost its nasalization in the Romance languages except in monosyllables, where it became /n/ (cf.