Fw: Fw: [Lexicog] new nosey word

[Jimm GoodTracks]

----- Original Message -----
From: "LONSKY,JIRI" <jlonsky at ufl.edu>
To: "Jimm GoodTracks" <goodtracks at gbronline.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Lexicog] new nosey word


Yes, it is true. Some of our consonants are so called
"syllable-forming", r, l, m; practically their ability to stand in
for a wovel is related to the possibility to hold a length (like
rrrrrrr and llll, while in other consonants this is not possible
(b, p, k, t etc.) These then cannot be syllable forming.
I had an interesting conversation a while ago with a Czech man in
New mexico who brought to my attention close linguistic ties
between the Basque language and Czech. Amazing.
Hope you are well,
Jiri

On Sat Apr 10 20:37:58 EDT 2004, Jimm GoodTracks
<goodtracks at gbronline.com> wrote:

> Jiri!
> Is this true that Czech has words without vowels??  If so, how do
> they
> pronounce the words??
> Jimm
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Ullrich" <jfu at centrum.cz>
> To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:09 AM
> Subject: RE: [Lexicog] new nosey word
> 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 Ullrich
> Lakota Language Revitalization Project
> Indiana University, Bloomington
> www.lakotalanguage.org
>