Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 17:27 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
>Yeah, and the infamous Bella Coola comes to mind as well. Tamazight is
>similarly
>"consonantal" but words tend to be short. My Tech has theoretical words
>like
><mtL`q`ac'`> and <rdZGuTxw> and a lot of one-consonant prepositions, like
>the
>aforementioned <d> "from" (it's pronounced [d@] by itself so don't worry
>:P)
I've been seeing the name "Tamazight" alot lately - what is it?
While Tairezazh's clusters aren't exactly georgianesque, you do get words
like _zgzang_ "tetragon". The other day it occured to me that I can't recall
seeing an initial cluster which features the same consonant twice (excluding
as part of a affricate like in German "Szene"). Anyone's got any examples?
Is there any theoretical reasons to expect that such clusters shouldn't turn
up or be rare?
BTW, _zgzang_ is one of Tairezazh's stealth compounds - back in Classical
Klaish it was _sag-zangu_ "four-corner". The sisterlang Steianzh mangles the
second syllable instead; _sagzeng_ ['sag.zN=g].
Andreas
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