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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