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Re: Many consonants

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 11:01
I note you've got a similar problem to my "créée" example - are we talking
orthographical or phonetic consonants? If phonetic, my example fails (as
does yours, I believe: the cluster schr is (I stand to be corrected by our
native Dutch spreakers) actually pronounced /sr/ ).
Mike
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From: "Almaran Dungeonmaster" <dungeonmaster@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 2:28 PM
Subject: Many consonants


> 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? > > Maarten van Beek

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