Re: the Most Consonants in a row?

you're probably right about the [v]s.  and you're certainly right
about the relative unusefulness of "vowel" when talking about
caucasian languages in general, and georgian in specific.
kit

On Sep 14, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:39:34 -0400, Kit La Touche
> <kit@...> wrote:
>> gvprckvnis, "he is peeling us", where the "c" is a [ts], counting
>> as a
>> single consonant in georgian, as it is an affricate.  however, the
>> [r] may
>> be syllabic.
> I'd argue that the |v|s could be syllabic too, if pushed. Doesn't
> stop them being consonants, though -- although we're in territory
> where "vocoid" might be a more useful term than "vowel".
>
> Paul

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