Nasal Vowel - Example Languages

Example Languages

Languages that use phonemic nasal vowels include, among others:

• Austro-Bavarian
• Breton
• Bengali
• Cherokee
• Choctaw
• Elfdalian
• French (see French phonology#Nasal vowels)
• Gbe languages
• Gheg Albanian
• Guaraní
• Gujarati
• Haitian Creole
• Hindi
• Hmong
• Irish
• Mandarin Chinese (see Erhua, e.g. (simplified Chinese: 棒儿; traditional Chinese: 棒兒; pinyin: bàngr), (simplified Chinese: 蜂儿; traditional Chinese: 蜂兒; pinyin: fēngr))
• Min Nan (including Taiwanese)
• Mirandese
• Mohawk
• Navajo
• Nepali
• Nheengatu
• Paicî (an unusually large number of nasal vowels)
• Polish (most dialects, including Kashubian)
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Tamil (modern colloquial Tamil only; literal Tamil uses oral-vowel plus nasal-stop sequences instead)
• Telugu
• Urdu
• Vietnamese
• Yélî Dnye (an unusually large number of nasal vowels)
• Yorùbá