Re: Circumfixes and syllabic consonants

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Temat: Circumfixes and syllabic consonants



>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.

i think i got something...
in japanese 'su' syllabe, especially at the end sounds like syllabic 's'
'shi' usually sounds 'sh'
(shi.chi.ji [sh.chi.ji])
'tsu' - 'ts'
(many -u ending syllabes lost that u...)
etc.

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