Fricatives
... sequence of a vowel plus a nasal consonant. Nasal vowels generally appear as the dipthongs [o] ,[e] only before continuants and in a word final position but as a sequences of a vowel plus a homoganic nasal before non-continuant obstruents.” Gladney (Handbook of Polish) mentions that “the nasal resonance of n actually commences sooner than the tongue makes the required closure in the alveolar region, and as a result the glide is nasalized, [w] and to some extent the o as well [o] – the nearest English equivalent could be heard in “own”. Examples: [powk] – bud pąk [moka] -flour mąka [demby] -oaks dęby Data: Nom Sing Loc Sing Nom Plural [umyvalka] umyvalce [umyvalki] ‘sink’ [podwoga] podwodze [podwogi] ‘floor’ [mapa] mapie [map] ‘map’ [wava] lawie [wav] ‘bench’ [ni t] ni [ni ti] ‘thread’ [gvara] [gvar] ‘dialect’ [noga] [nogi] ‘leg’ [tsegwa] [tsegw] ‘brick’ [tapka] [tapki] ‘hat’ [osa] [os] ‘wasp’ [groza] [groz] ‘fear’ [telefon] [telefon] ‘telephone’ [zux] [zux] ‘boyscout’ [mak] [maki] ‘poppy’ [ple] [plei...