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In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits .
The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...
Harari uses a non-local, or distant harmony system known as palatalization harmony, where the rightmost coronal consonant, aside from [r], is palatalized by [i] in the second-person feminine singular non-perfective. [2] The effect of [i] on one consonant would affect another consonant, and so forth, via a domino effect.
When final nasal consonants are deleted, the nasality is maintained on the preceding vowel. When voiced stops are deleted, the length of the preceding vowel is maintained. Consonants remaining from reduced final clusters may be eligible for deletion. The deletion occurs especially if the final consonant is a nasal or a stop.
Middle English had a long close front vowel /iː/, and two long mid front vowels: the close-mid /eː/ and the open-mid /ɛː/.The three vowels generally correspond to the modern spellings i , ee and ea respectively, but other spellings are also possible.
Many current place names are somewhat corrupted when compared with what their originals would have been, but this seems to suggest consonant clusters were widespread in Aboriginal languages. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ [your turn] 01:26, 20 May 2012 (UTC) The question was about consonant clusters within syllables.
Overlapping blends are those for which the ingredients' consonants, vowels or even syllables overlap to some extent. The overlap can be of different kinds. [9] These are also called haplologic blends. [17] There may be an overlap that is both phonological and orthographic, but with no other shortening: anecdote + dotage ⇒ anecdotage [n 2]
the long equivalents ā , ēa , and often ǣ when directly followed by two or more consonants (indicated by ā+CC, ǣ+CC, etc.); occasionally, the long vowel ē when directly followed by two consonants, particularly when this vowel corresponded to West Saxon Old English ǣ . (Middle English, and hence Modern English, largely derives from the ...