Re: And who needs vowels?

Perfect timing here: my mother got me a book on "weird words in the world's
languages" for Christmas, & a few pages of it center on long consonant
clusters. Tashlhiyt Berber is reported to have lots of words with no vowels
at all: there's no phonem/tic transcriptions so we'll have to gess the exact
pronunciation, but a few amusing entries include _rglx_ "I locked" or
_tkkststt_ "you detached it". :)

(A variety of Czech words w/o vowels are also listed, but their existence
should be familiar to most here, no?)

John Vertical

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