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Re: vowels: are they necessary?

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 0:35
Hi!

Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> writes:
> --- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote: > > When a consonant is fricative or trilled, it can be > > continued as long we want. Is there any languages > > that has some words that are only consonants without > > vowels? > > Oh, quite a few. Russian comes to mind; 's' and 'v' > are both legitimate words (I think they're > prepositions). Many languages have a syllabic 'r' or > 'l' (such as Czech, Slovak and Sanskrit).
Russian also has 'k'. And there the Kroatian island 'Krk' [kr=k]. Caucasian languages also tend to like consonants. But I think the languages with the least vowels are Berber languages. E.g. Tamaziqhth. Or Tashlhiyt as described here: http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/TPS.html (This link was posted here some time ago.) **Henrik