Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Hi!

JS Bangs <jaspax@...> writes:
> [mak.ka]
> [mak:.a]
> [ma.k:a]
>
> I doubt that any of these other than the first ever exists in the world's
> languages, though.
Malay seems to have initial long consonant clusters.  Even plosives.
The first part of these will probably belong to the first syllable of
the word and not to the unspoken previous one. :-)

   /kitO/  'us'
   /k:itO/ 'to us'

(Source:
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/malay/malay.html)

No idea how you really pronounce those (but you may listen to the
speaker), but maybe you have to *look* at people to see how long the
pause is before they start to speak. :-)))

**Henrik

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