From: Brian M. Scott Message: 70445 Date: 2012-11-11
At 8:52:07 AM on Sunday, November 11, 2012, Tavi wrote:
> Please notice that Portuguese <n> is a mere *ortographic*
> device for representing nasality and not an actual
> phoneme.
Actually, Portuguese does have a phoneme /n/. But yes, I'm
perfectly well aware of the orthographic use of <n> and <m>
to indicate nasalization of a preceding vowel.