From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52959
Date: 2008-02-13
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-
I really like how IE this word looks
The Salishan (also Salish) languages . . . are
characterised by agglutinativity and astonishing
consonant clusters-for instance the Nuxálk word
meaning 'he had had a bunchberry plant' has 13
consonants in a row with no vowels.
(Wikipedia "Salishan")
or xLpxwLtLpLLskwC in ASCII
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There is never more than two stops in a row.
and the habit of not noting schwa does not help.
This cluster is mainly a graphic thing.
We don't even know how to cut this string in morphemes.
Arnaud
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