| 1. | Prenasalized stops as well as the implosive are extremely rare.
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| 2. | The Indo-Aryan languages Dhivehi too have prenasalized stops.
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| 3. | Prenasalized stops are voiced throughout; prestopped nasals are voiceless during the stop.
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| 4. | Maldivian has the prenasalized stops,,, and.
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| 5. | A prenasalized stop starts out with a lowered velum that raises during the occlusion.
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| 6. | Complex consonants such as affricates, prenasalized stops and the like are also possible.
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| 7. | Prenasalized stops are also reconstructed for Old Japanese.
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| 8. | Thus the prenasalized stops behave like ordinary consonants.
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| 9. | Maldivian and Sinhalese are the only Indo-Aryan languages that have prenasalized stops.
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| 10. | An example of the unitary behavior of prenasalized stops is provided by voiced stops,.
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