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Re: Many consonants

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 8:20
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: > >"zachtstschreidend" > >/zAxtstsxrEid@nt/ > >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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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