On second thought...
From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
> From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>
> > - Greek sounds extremely Spanish. I wasn't aware
> > of that. Very pleasant.
>
> Modern German has a lot of words ending in -o, -a, -os and -as, so there's
> its Spanish-like quality. It would sound more like Castillian I would
> imagine.
D'OH!! That's Ellinika that I meant obviously, not Deutsch.
> In everyday speech, many of those consonants kind of disappear. I'm
thinking
> that 21st or 22nd century Georgian might suffer from the same malady as
> Irish Gaelic before the spelling reform in the mid 20st century. All those
> unpronounced letters.
I could've brought up Tibetan as well.
> Uzbek is Turkic with Persian vowels, specifically Tajiki. It doesn't
really
> have clusters; I think the "short" vowels are metathetized or something,
but
> I haven't heard any Uzbek in a while.
I just remember -- maybe those are Persian/Farsi loanwords. See my other
post about words with three consecutive medial consonants, in names like
Shahrzad and such.