Quoting "Roger Mills" <[log in to unmask]>:
> --- On Wed, 8/18/10, Toms Deimonds Barvidis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> The protolanguge of Longrimol - Quebut, has three aspirated
>> nasals, sounds that IMO fit in the phonetic system of it
>> very well.  However, they did not survive in
>> Longrimol; they were broken down to nasal+voiceless stop and
>> then
>> eventually  were voiced between vowels.
>> I want these nasals to disappear in another of the daughter
>> language of Quebut, the Nagatol language, but I don't
>> want them to go the same route they did in Longrimol. So,
>> any of you know a possible change that might happen to
>> these nasals?
>> BTW, they are, of course, mh, nh ŋh.
>> 
> How about:
> 1. vowels are (automatically) nasalized before all nasals
> 2. aspirated nasals become voiceless
> 3. voiceless nasals > 0
> 4. leaving a sequence of: nasalized vowel + h + (whatever follows)
> 5. (this might create a stage where nasalized vowel before /h/ is automatic,
>i.e. non-phonemic)
> 6. the nasalized vowels before voiced nasals would probably remain
>nasalized, but not contrastively-- OTOH though if you have sequences like
>...V+N+C..., those nasals might also > 0 (as in French) and you would be
>left with contrastive (phonemic) nasalized vowels.
> 
> An amusing development between 2 and 3 might be for the (still present)
>nasal articulation to affect the quality of the vowel-- V+mh might show some
>rounding, V+nh raising, V+Nh lowering/backing-- this could create 
>diphthongs (nasalized, of course), inter alia.
> 
> Somewhat baroque, perhaps :-))))))


The idea of diphthongs does appeal me, actually. It would be nice to have some diphthongs in Nagatol (even though 
nasalised), since the ones inherited from Quebut were monophthongised . 

-- 
In mist and twilight I shall linger
~TDB~