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From: rturkel@cas.org (Rick Turkel)
Subject: Re: Question: Vowelless word
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In article <3k6086$ist$2@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>,
Jacques Thury  <75107.2170@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>Serbo-Croatian:
>    trg = place, market
>    Island of Krk

Bzzzzt.  I'm sorry, but this is incorrect.  In Serbocroatian the letter
"r" between two consonants _is_ a vowel, the so-called "syllabic r." It
just looks like a consonant to those unfamiliar with this concept.  Sort
of like English vowels, which are "a" "e" "i" "o" "u" and sometimes
"y" - in Serbocroatian (and most of the other South-Slavic languages),
it's the expected 5 and sometimes "r."  Btw, Czech and Slovak, in
addition to syllabic "r", also have syllabic "l."

This comes up often enough that it should be put in the FAQ for this
Newsgroup.

>Vietnamese family name "Ng"
>
>Aren't they fun?
>
>--
>Jacques Thuery


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