Consonantal segments in Russian

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Seth B Graham wrote:

>
> A Russian linguist friend once gave me an example of a word, albeit
> questionable in taste and in lexical viability, with SIX consecutive
> consonants, to wit: "vzbzdnut'"
>
> Seth Graham <sbgst8+ at pitt.edu>
>

Yeh, and it is the only one that I know. However, with FIVE consonants,
one can also notice a cluster with "kontr-":
"kontrprimer, kontrpredlozheniye, kontrpretenziya, kontrpropaganda", and
so on.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>