A nasal is a sound produced when the air is allowed to escape through the nose, while its oral passage may be blocked by the lips or tongue (a nasal stop) or opened (a nasal vowel). Nasal stops are often called simply "nasals".

Here are some nasal consonants:

[m] is a voiced bilabial nasal
[ɱ] is a voiced labiodental nasal ( SAMPA [F])
[n] is an alveolar or dental nasal: see alveolar nasal
[ɳ] voiced retroflex nasal, common in Indic languages
[ɲ] voiced palatal nasal ( SAMPA [J]); is a common sound in European languages as in: Spanish ñ; or French and Italian gn; or Catalan and HungarianThe Hungarian language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and in adjacent areas of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia (all territories lost after World War I). The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar''. There are ny; or PortuguesePortuguese portugues is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. With more than 200 million native speakers, Portuguese is one of the few languages spoken in such widely-distributed parts nh.
[n] voiced velar nasalThe velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is n, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N. The velar occurs in English, and it is the sound deno ( SAMPA [N]), as in sing.
[ɴ] voiced uvular nasalThe uvular nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N\. Features of this consonant: Its manner of articulati

EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil, GermanGerman (called Deutsch in German in which germanisch refers to prechristian times), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union. and Cantonese have [m], [n] and [n]

French has [m], [n] and [ɲ], as well as [n] in a few recent loanwords (such as le parking).

Catalan and Italian have [m], [n], [ɲ] as phonemes, and [n] as an allophone.

Spanish has [m], [n], [ɲ] as phonemes, and [ɱ] and [n] as allophones.

Mohawk has only one nasal phoneme /n/, and Rotokas, a language of Papua New Guinea, has none (although nasals do show up allophonically in that language).

French, Portuguese, and Polish have nasal vowels. In IPA, nasal vowels are indicated by placing a tilde (~) over the vowel in question. So French sang = /sã/.

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