Re: Many consonants

        Ahhh....
        You must go to the web site
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8029/top10.html

        To quote the web author there: "One day, as I was eating my
breakfast, I was suddenly hit by a divine hallucinatory trance in which the
Great She-Caribou of Linguistical Diversity manifested herself to me in the
form of a big levitating tongue in order to transmit a special message."

        Actually, besides the author's strange sense of humor (I really like
it), she discusses the 10 languages everyone should learn because they're
interesting, and Georgian is one of them. She even has .wav files of
"vprtskvni" and "gvbrdghvnis", spoken by a native, and "vprtskvni" spoken by
two of her friends so you can laugh at them.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Weiben Wang
| Subject: Re: Many consonants
|
| How about Georgian?  I know little about it, but I
| have read that it can have six or more (!) syllable
| initial consonants. I found the following at:
     8<  snip  >8
| I'd really like to hear what "vprtskvni" sounds like.
| Is it really just one syllable?  Funky language that
| Georgian is, I gotta say.
| -Weiben

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