--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

>
> Thank you! I'll study this (and the Tamil one) over the week-end.

I have slightly modified the Tamil list adding a few words.

http://livingstone.vsb.bc.ca/multiliteracy/languagelinks/t_list.htm

However, I don't know of loan words for most of the items you
mention. I do have a nice list of Canadiana like moose, beaver,
maple, Vancouver, etc. :) In my list of Canadian provinces I noticed
that Prince in Prince Edward Avenue is spelled 'pirins' and New
Brunswick is spelled 'niyu biransvik' and British Columbia starts
with 'birittish'

I found this observation in a Tamil post.

>I think Tol is correct in interpreting that there is a near
>voiceless vowel operates on to some consonant clusters.

>eg:
>brook = burook with a near voiceless u
>break = bireak with a near voiceless i

Does anyone have any examples from other langauges where consonant
clusters become separate syllables. These even seem to show vowel
harmony.

Suzanne McCarthy