Re: Circumfixes and syllabic consonants

At 19:14 31/10/98 -0000, you wrote:

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 Christophe Grandsire wrote that he liked reduplication very much when he
read the Sumerian grammar I gave him. By the way, when will he give it back
to me ? Christophe, can you read me ?

        Of course I can read you. I can give you back your book when you
want. By the way, it's so true that I like reduplication that I decided to
use it in a new project of mine still in my mind (and in small sheets of=
 paper).


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>> Also, syllabic consonants: how frequent are they? Have you
>> ever used them? By "syllabic consonants" I mean consonant
>> sounds that can be treated as vowels, i. e. they can form a
>> syllable, and be stressed. I know at least Chinese has a syllabic
>> "r". My new conlang is having lots of syllabic consonants; in
>> fact, voiced fricatives can all be syllabic.
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>Japanese 'n' is counted as a syllable and is so pronounced (/n/, /m/ or
/ng/) in poems and songs. Also Khmer does that with aspirated initials :
k'bal =3D head.
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>> --Pablo Flores
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>Mathias
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>> * If a princess kisses a frog and the frog doesn't become a prince,
>> * let's not hurry into discarding the frog. Enchanted princes are
>> * rare, but authentic princesses are not abundant either.
>> *
>> *     (Ana Marma Shza, "House of Geishas")
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