Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 5:42 |
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Quoting Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
> > (I don't like my native language; it has
> > something to do with that (C) (C) (C) (V) V (V) (C) (C) (C) syllabic
> > style and 20+ vowels represented by five or six overlapping symbols,
> > which caused me to limit my alphabets and syllabic styles
> considerably.)
>
> What word has VVV? or VV, for that matter, unless diphthongs are being
> counted as containing two seperate elements?
In some languages they are separate phonemes; in others, they
aren't.
Speaking of syllable structure, is there any language out there that
beats Georgian's EIGHT consonants in an onset?
gvprckvnis = "He is fleecing"
(Nine if you count the affricate <c> as [ts])
(I'm not including languages that cheat like Bella Coola because
they don't have to have vowels in words)
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