Phonology exercises
Fijian
Fijian is an example of a language with prenasalized stops in its phonological inventory. (The prenasalized stop [nd] consists of a nasal pronounced immediately before the stop, with which it forms a single sound unit.) Consider the following Fijian words as they are pronounced in fast speech:
| vindi | 'to spring up' | dina | 'true' |
| kenda | 'we' | dalo | 'taro plant' |
| tiko | 'to stay' | vundi | 'plantain banana' |
| tutu | 'grandfather' | manda | 'first' |
| viti | 'Fiji' | tina | 'mother' |
| dovu | 'sugarcane' | mata | 'eye' |
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