[Lexicog] new nosey word

[Mali Translation]

Dobri den, Jan,

That's all I can say in Czech.
Wow, what a language you have!
I'll try the Czech tongue twister out on a Czech lady here in 
Bamako/Mali and will let you know how she reacted.

Happy Easter,

Fritz Goerling 


Fritz

In Czech, my native language, probably the longest word without vowels is “scvrnkls”. It means something like “you pushed it away with you finger”. 
I think most of the Czech vowel-less words usually have about three to five consonants, but quite frequently they can be combined into sentences, similar to the famous Czech tongue twister:

Strc prst skrz krk. (Stick your finger through your throat.)

In such Czech words it is indeed “r” and “l” that are phonetically vowel-like.

Jan



Jan Ullrich
Lakota Language Revitalization Project
Indiana University, Bloomington
www.lakotalanguage.org





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> Peter,
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> 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?
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> Fritz Goerling
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> On 09/04/2004 05:44, Mali Translation wrote:
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> > Are there languages that can build tapeworm words like
> > German "Automobilausstellungsleiterantragsformularvordruckspapier"
> > (= automobile exhibition director application form preprint paper)? ...
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> I don't think Wayne's example is a tapeworm of this kind, multiple root 
> words strung together. It is more like a root with multiple affixes. In 
> agglutinative languages these can become very long, rivalling your 
> German compound, like the following Turkish example which I have 
> reconstructed from memory (and perhaps not entirely accurately)?
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> Çekoslovakyalılaştırılamayanlardansınızmı?
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> Are you one of those who could not be Czechoslovakianised?
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> But can anyone rival Wayne's sequence of four e's, one with an accent? I 
> heard of a language written in Cyrillic script in which there was a 
> possible word with a sequence of seven u's, but that happened because 
> the same letter was used for u and w.
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> > I got an interesting Cheyenne word today. I think it was used 
> as a putdown
> > of someone, which makes it even funnier within the Cheyenne system of 
> > joking
> > relationships:
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> > Nétsêhe'êsêsóhkometséeeese. 'You have a long narrow nose flared (at the
> > nostrils).'
> >
> ...
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> -- 
> Peter Kirk
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> peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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