Re: Circumfixes and syllabic consonants

Who? wrote:
> 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.
*English* (at least some dialects) also has syllabic 'r' and 'l', as
well as nasals.  _Her_, for example, is /hr,/ (/,/ = syllabic
diacritic).  _Little_ also has syllabic /l,/.