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Re: the Most Consonants in a row?

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 18:57
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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