Steven Williams wrote:
> --- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> skrev:
>>>Oh, quite a few. Russian comes to mind; 's' and 'v'
>>>are both legitimate words (I think they're prepositions).
>> Well, phonologically, they never stand alone (AFAIK).
>> Indeed, another consonental preposition is 'k'.
> Interesting. How are clusters like /s zdranat/ (I'm
> making up a Russian-sounding word here, because the
> only Russian I know comes from old spy movies)
> pronounced?
In these cases, _s_ becomes _so_. E.g. "so mnoy".
Similary with other prepostions (all these words
are prepositions). Indeed, even prepositions like _ob_
sometimes become _obo_. I can't seem to find the
situations in which the extra "o"s appear. I can
visualise the page of the grammar it appears on,
but I can't find it by paging through it...
>>Many languages have a syllabic 'r' or
>>>'l' (such as Czech, Slovak and Sanskrit).
>>Or English. (little /litl=/, better /betr=/)
> D'oh! Forgot about my own native language here!
Well, it's hidden by the orthography :)
s.
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