Re: Satritain babel text complete

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à lblissett <blissett@...>:
> > "hkhyra" -- (cleared hill) 3 syllables. hk -- (a kind of aspirating
> > stop
> > which might sound like [hxk]) -- hy [haI] -- ra [ra] (r trilled)
> > "kgthsa" -- (will burn) 3 syllables [k]-[gT]-[sa]
> > "shmm" -- (of the) [s`]-[mm]
>
> Your syllabification looks strange. Normally a syllable is organised around
> a peak of sonority, which can carry a stress or another kind of prosodic
> information (length, tone, etc...).
Strange, yes, but not unattested.  Various dialects of Berber
syllabify like this.

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