Re: Long consonant strings

From: Nicholas Bodley
Message: 2662
Date: 2004-07-01

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:54:11 -0700, Peter Constable
<petercon@...> wrote:
>
> 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.

I'll keep your message, at least. Thank you! I can understand a little
better how a native Hawai'ian speaker regards, say, Serbo-Croatian.

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