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Re: Streaming foreign languages was Re: Maltese Phonology

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 1:37
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.