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From: kichenas@s6.math.umn.edu (Satyanad Kichenassamy)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 04:29:54 GMT
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In article <hubey.786044944@pegasus.montclair.edu> hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) writes:
>koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E Koontz) writes:
>
>>In article <3b8ih7$bsf@gordon.enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>
>>And Siouan (though hardly relevant here):  cf. Dakotan pte 'cow',
>>Mandan pti(re) 'buffalo'.
>
>I stand corrected. I should have either checked out the book on Circassian
>again [and with it other books] or should have said more; like
>the triple consonant clusters and initial clusters.
>
>--
>						-- Mark---

On the subject of consonant clusters, one should not forget 
examples from Sanskrit:

    pt cluster:           aapta ( < aap, obtain)
    triple cons. cluster: strii (woman)

Other initial clusters: sm.rti, druta, ...

Other clusters: apsara, vakra, dvandva, ...

Many other examples can be found in any dictionary.

Tamil (of course, a Dravidian language) has very commonly
consonant clusters involving nasals, or repeated consonants:
vantE_n, uRREn, pa.t.tu, man~n~ai, ... The nasal may not be of the same type
as the following consonant: nA_nku.

Triple consonant clusters include: pArttEn, tErntu.



                                Satyanad Kichenassamy
                                School of Mathematics
                                University of Minnesota
                                kichenas@math.umn.edu
  
 

