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Re: [ceqli] Consensus



On 1/26/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:
> Good.  I like concesi.   No more CCC.   Now, how does everybody feel
> about internal NN (pinmo) and LL (berli), as well as LN$ (farm, balm)?

Personally, I find medial LL and final LN about
equally easy, and medial NN only slightly
difficult (including /nN/, /mN/ which you say
you find difficult).  But we should probably look
at how many widely-spoken languages allow
these kinds of clusters.  Offhand I know
Japanese has medial /nm/, Greek has/had
medial (and initial!) /mn/, and English has rare
/nm/ (e.g. "hymnology").

I'm aware of the Mulivo project that's collecting
and comparing vocabulary from various widely-spoken
languages (you might use that as a source to
help replace the words with initial CCC).  But
I don't know of any source for comparing what
kinds of clusters various languages allow.

One argument against the final LN clusters
is that in compounds you might have four
consonants in a row.  If no final clusters are
allowed in morphemes, you would have at most three
consonants in a medial cluster.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry