Re: Many consonants
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 8:20 |
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Maarten van Beek wrote:
>We recently had a discussion on the number of vowels in a row... I was
>wondering how many consonants can be put in a row in any conlang or
>natlang...
>
>For Dutch, I found 9 consonants in a row the longest combination:
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>"zachtstschreidend"
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>/zAxtstsxrEid@nt/
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>Meaning: "most carefully pacing"
>
>Anyone have any other examples?
Swedish _Ernstskts_ [{n`s`t`s`kts] pretty good. It's the name _Ernst_, plus
adjectival -sk, t-gender -t and genitive -s, meaning something like "of an
Ernstian (thing)". Only seven consonants, but final ...
(To be honest, nobody'd bother pronouncing that /k/, but anyway)
Andreas
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