Nasalized

In Portugal, vowels before a nasal consonant have become denasalized, but in Brazil they remain heavily nasalized.

Originally, all vowels in both languages were nasalized before any nasal consonants, and nasal consonants not immediately followed by a vowel were eventually dropped.

The extensions have also been used to record certain peculiarities in an individual's voice, such as nasalized voicing.

The other main difference is in the fourth tyellë below, where those letters with raised stems and doubled bows can be either voiced fricatives, as in Sindarin (general mode at right), or nasalized stops, as in Quenya (classical mode).

The prefixes en- and em- are always nasalized.

When the elided consonant was n, it often nasalized the preceding vowel: cf. Lat. manum main ("hand"), ranam main ("frog"), bonum main ("good"), Port.