[Lexicog] Re: consonant cluster words

[Lameen Souag]

Hi everybody,

You might be interested in the case of Tashlhiyt Berber, which is
alleged (Dell & El-Medlaoui) to have many words consisting entirely of
consonants.  A sceptical paper on the subject is available online,
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/TPS.html; it has recordings, so you
can judge for yourselves whether there's any vowel or not...

I should really introduce myself here; I'm Lameen Souag, curator at the
Rosetta Project (www.rosettaproject.com), an effort to put together an
open-source online compendium (and time capsule) of essential info on
every language of the world.  We aren't doing anything that could be
described as a dictionary yet (apart from Swadesh lists, which we have a
profusion of), but we're considering ways to do so that would take into
account the desire to make words comparable across an enormous range of
languages.

Lameen Souag

> Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:29:21 -0000
>    From: "Mali Translation" <translation_mali at sil.org>
> Subject: RE: new nosey word
>
> 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



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