Re: Streaming foreign languages was Re: Maltese Phonology

I didn't finish the reply, me being the dummy.

From: "Thomas Leigh" <thomas@...>

> Do they? You probably know a lot more Georgian than I do, but just judging
> by what I've heard, it sounds to me like they pronounce them (or most of
> them) but that they break up a lot of the consonant sequences with schwas.
> Although it does seem like /v/ has a marked tendency to get labialized
into
> /w/.
What I remember reading:
a) consonant clusters are broken up by epenthetic schwa, which are
unwritten,
b) some consonants in some clusters are dropped, but still written,
c) /m/, /n/, /r/ and /l/ become syllabic, and syllabics are reconstructed
for Proto-Kartvelian (as they are in PIE),
d) /y/ and /v/ become /i/ and /u/ the same way the consonants in c) become
syllabic,
e) /v/ has an allophone, [w], after consonants, and /v/ comes from PK *w
(still /w/ in Svan).
f) A LOT of consonants are post-labialized, not just gv, kv, k'v, q'v. Just
like North Caucasian. Areal feature?