Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

> Oh, I've pronounced it.  'Cides, they're aliens, and "optimized" for
> such oddities.  They find *our* languages with consonants truely
> unpronounceable and needlessly exotic.
Aha, an opportunity to complain!

Talk about needlessly exotic.  Let me list for y'all some
of the more unpronounceable consonant clusters of Georgian:

bgera       'sound'
dgas        'stands' (3pSg)
dghe        'day' (where <gh> is [R])
mijghvna    'dedication' (where <j> = [dz])
pxizeli     'sober' (<x> = [X])
Mcxeta      city in Georgia (where [m] is *not* syllabic, <c>=[ts]
              and <x> = [X])
chrdiloetis  (no gloss; <ch> = [tS]; <r> not syllabic)
eqrdnoba     (no gloss)

To add insult to injury, [h] is *not* used unless it's
in the middle of a three-string cluster. They find [h]
otherwise, like between vowels, quite hard to pronounce.

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