Re: average syllables per word?

FFlores scripsit:

> (Speaking of consonant clusters... my favorite Georgian word
> is _vprtskvni_ 'I am peeling it', which is supposed to be
> one syllable. I don't know which part is 'peel', but I'm quite
> sure it's not the vowel.)
Then there is the name Mgrvgrvladje, which has two syllables and an
8-consonant cluster in the first syllable.

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