Abstract
Angami or Tenyidie is a Tibeto-Burman language with voicing contrast in nasals. In order to study the voiceless nasals in detail, using the Nasometer II 6450, four Angami speakers were recorded producing the nasal voicing contrasts in isolation and in sentence frames (n = 620). Using nasal and the oral channel data extracted from the Nasometer, amount of voicing, nasalance and duration were measured. The results showed that the voiceless nasals produced in isolation were mostly voiceless with oral aspiration appearing around the middle of the articulation. When produced in sentence frames, an additional voiced nasal portion was noticed at the onset of the voiceless nasal. In terms of nasality, determined by nasalance scores, effect of the place of articulation was observed. It was also noticed that the onset of oral aspiration resulted in reduced nasalance. The voiceless nasals were consistently longer than their voiced counterparts. Generally, when produced in sentence frames, all the nasals were longer, regardless of voicing.
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