Talk:Nasal consonant

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[edit] non-iso-latin-1 characters

What's the point of using non-iso-latin-1 characters like 'ŋ'? They still appear as an interrogant in most browsers. -- Perique des Palottes

Because most people have a unicode font installed on their computer for at least three years. Internet_Explorer 5.0 which came out 1999 already came with the font Lucida Sans Unicode which nicely displays this page. So if you set your browser's font to this font this page displays properly. Later browsers even automatically choose the right font (see Unicode_and_HTML). As more than 80% the visitors are using a IE5 or later on Windows I consider it a good idea to give the correct IPA glyph. I think it is helpful that you add the SAMPA as well. -- HJH

[edit] Velar nasal and labiodental nasal in Portuguese?

Sounds wrong to me. Source needed. FilipeS 21:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Syllabic nasals

"Syllabic nasal" redirects to this page but the page doesn't mention syllabic nasals. --TzirTzi (talk) 08:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)