consonants (up to six)
Robert Mathiesen
SL500000 at BROWNVM.BITNET
Thu Mar 30 18:37:55 UTC 1995
> Try "umershchvlju" 1st sg. from umertvit'; I'm assuming the
> pronunciation with the cluster shch, but even if one uses
> the alternate pronuncation with a long soft sh, there are
> still five consonantal segments in a row. Once in a class a
> native Russian, upon hearing the example, exclaimed that it
> was "a crime against sound."
> Charles Gribble Gribble.3 at osu.edu
It's not Modern Standard Russian, but modern [Synodal] Church Slavonic,
but you can add one more consonant to that cluster by going to the past
active participle of the same verb: umershchvl'shij. That makes six
consonants in all.
Robert Mathiesen (SL500000 at BROWNVM.BITNET)
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