--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Constable" <petercon@...> wrote:

> > From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]
>
>
> > >> Reminds me of Mtskheta, a city (or small geographical region in
> Georgia
> > >> (Gruzia).
> > >> I suspect that that could be CCCCV[CV], but I'm a dilettante...
> > >
> > > In Georgian the maximal onset is 8 C's, as in the two-syllable
> surname
> > > Mgrvgrvladje.
> >
> > Utterly delightful. My jaw dropped, and I gasped gently; no kidding.
> Much
> > appreciated.
>
> You like that? Take a look at languages from the Wakashan or Salishan
> families (I can't remember which -- perhaps it's both) that have
> poly-syllablic words with consonant clusters but without vowels.

Reminds me of a 3-syllabic tongue twister my grandma told me:

'f&:tst s ts 'tsYri ?
mizzles it to Zurich ?
Does it mizzle in Zurich?

(in the High Alemannic dialect of Zurich)

g_0ry@_ˆs:
j. 'mach' wust