Re: vowels: are they necessary?

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>Date:         Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:40:19 -0700
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>From: Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
>Subject:      Re: vowels: are they necessary?
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
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>On Dec 8, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Paul Roser wrote:
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>> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:25:19 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to know, </FONT></P>
>>> 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? A little word that is only a rolled [r], a [s], a [v],
>>> without the vowel releasing. It would be conceivable.
>>
I thought I've read somewhere, that czech for "cross" is "krst", this qualifies
as a vowelless word methinks.

Besides, it would be interesting to know if there are words that are consonant-less
(I mean, just 3 vowels or more, no cons at all). Maybe hawaiian?

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