>I'm going to try to send this in UTF-8 (for the Georgian). I hope this
>doesn't cause any problems.
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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.
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>Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
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>[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
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>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.
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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'.