Editing Nasal consonant (section)

===Lack of phonetic nasals===
Several of languages surrounding [[Puget Sound]], such as [[Quileute language|Quileute]] (Chimakuan family), [[Lushootseed]] (Salishan family), and [[Makah language|Makah]] (Wakashan family), are truly without any nasalization whatsoever, in consonants or vowels, except in special speech registers such as [[baby talk]] or the archaic speech of mythological figures (and perhaps not even that in the case of Quileute). This is an [[areal feature]], only a few hundred years old, where nasals became voiced stops ({{IPA|[m]}} became {{IPA|[b]}}, {{IPA|[n]}} became {{IPA|[d]}}, {{IPA|[ɳ]}} became {{IPA|[ɖ]}}, {{IPA|[ɲ]}} became {{IPA|[ɟ]}}, {{IPA|[ŋ]}} became {{IPA|[g]}}, {{IPA|[ŋʷ]}} became {{IPA|[gʷ]}}, {{IPA|[ɴ]}} became {{IPA|[ɢ]}}, etc.) after colonial contact. For example, "Snohomish" is currently pronounced ''sdohobish'', but was transcribed with nasals in the first English-language records.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

The only other places in the world where this is known to occur are in Melanesia. In the central dialect of the [[Rotokas language]] of Bougainville Island, nasals are only used when imitating foreign accents. (A second dialect has a series of nasals.) The [[Lakes Plain languages]] of West Irian are similar.

The  unconditioned loss of nasals, as in Puget Sound, is unusual. Currently in [[Korean language|Korean]], {{IPA|/m/}} and {{IPA|/n/}} are shifting to {{IPA|[b]}} and {{IPA|[d]}}, but only word-initially. This started out in nonstandard dialects and was restricted to the beginning of prosodic units (a common position for [[fortition]]), but has expanded to many speakers of the standard language to the beginnings of common words even within prosodic units.<ref>Yoshida, Kenji, 2008. "Phonetic implementation of Korean 'denasalization' and its variation related to prosody". IULC Working Papers, vol. 6.</ref>