Re: Many consonants
| From: | Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 11:01 |
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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
----- Original Message -----
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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