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
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