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Re: OT: long consonant clusters

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2004, 21:38
--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> At 21:41 3.1.2004, R J wrote: > > >There's always Serbian <krst> 'cross'* and > <prst> 'finger'. > > > >* as in 'He wears a cross' > > But the /r/ counts as a vowel there!
I think the r/l/m/n/s/z in a lot of these examples do the work of vowels. Otherwise, the English "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" would be the longest! ;) Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .