>Impress your friends with your flawless Slavic. If you can't quite >make
>the [dn], "Duh-NIECE-ter" or "Din-YES-ter" should sound tolerable.
Ah, but nothing beats the Russian phrase /zdrastvutye/... well, except for
the Chechen word /d`aaranig/ "over there"... actually I kinda like my own
reconstruction for "eight" in SinoDene (*b@...@:t with uvular *R and high
tone on the second syllable)... Oh! And there's Klingon "NuQ neQ?"... Wait!
Stop the presses! I know the language that takes the prize for impossible
consonant clusters!
..... Klallam! It's a language spoken (erh, or mumbled) in British Columbia,
Canada. I think it's classified as "Salish", not sure. There have been many
a white man who've choked to death attempting to speak it. Some words don't
look like they have vowels. I believe that the Klallam-speaking people were
created by benevolent linguistic elves! Teehee :)
- gLeN
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