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Re: OT: long consonant clusters

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2004, 22:03
Tim May wrote:

>I'm going to try to send this in UTF-8 (for the Georgian). I hope this >doesn't cause any problems. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Georgian > >http://www.armazi.demon.co.uk/georgian/grammar1.html#Phonology offers >მწვ�� თნელი mts'vrtneli ('trainer') and ვფ�� ცქვნი >vprtskvni ('I am >peeling it') as particularly impressive initial clusters. > > >Bella Coola (Nuxalk) > >[CKp?X_wKtKpKKs k_wts?] "Then he had in his possession a bunchberry >plant" - a complete sentence without vowels (X-SAMPA based on an image >of the IPA here: http://www.indiana.edu/~gasser/L503/phonology.html > >Possibly that should be /CKp_>X_wKtKpKKs k_wt_s_>/, going by the >americanist rendering in Mithun's _The Languages of Native North >America_ (which I got for christmas :-)). I make that 9-11 consonant >phonemes in the first word and 2 in the second, but I don't know much >about Salishan phonology. >
Woah, I got the same book for christmas...weird. The word I enjoyed most was from Columbian Salish, in the Phonology section - ?@X\_wa?, meaning, of course, 'to cough'.