The prenasalized stops have very short nasalization.
12.
This developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high back vowel, such as.
13.
Sri Lankan Malay has been in contact with Sinhala a long time and has also developed prenasalized stops.
14.
The Eastern Arrernte language has both prenasalized stops and prestopped nasals, but does not have word-initial consonant clusters.
15.
There are up to 34 consonant phonemes in the language, including implosive stops, prenasalized stops, and labialized consonants.
16.
In addition, Fijian allows prenasalized stops at the beginning of a word, but it does not allow other consonant sequences.
17.
However, there is little reason to choose between an analysis of as being a cluster as opposed to a prenasalized stop.
18.
A prenasalized stop starts out with a lowered velum that raises during the occlusion, much like the [ nd ] in " candy ".
19.
The spectrograms on the right show the word gaambar with a prenasalized stops and the word sambal with a sequence of nasal + voiced stop, yet not prenasalized.
20.
Exceptions from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long " ?" ( ) as " �� ", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops ."
