[Lexicog] new nosey word

[Peter Kirk]

On 10/04/2004 08:29, Mali Translation wrote:

> Peter,
>
> As you know Slavic languages, is it true that there are words
> in these languages that consist only of consonants (not just
> three but 7 to 10)?
> Can you give an example? Or can someone else?
>
> Fritz Goerling
>
Jan and Preslav have given better examples from Czech etc than I can
give from Russian. Russian words can start with some impressive
consonant clusters, e.g. in взгляд (vzgl'ad), but there is always a
vowel somewhere in the word, except for the one-consonant prepositions
which are phonetically prefixed to the following word. But a vowel is
inserted when the combinations get too hard even for Russians to
pronounce. Georgian is supposed to have much longer still initial
consonant clusters, but I can't confirm this.

--
Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/



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