08-11-2026, 02:21 PM
Getting back to R and L; in Czech, R and L can act like vowels.
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"Czech is famous for words that appear to have no vowel at all: vlk (wolf), prst (finger), krk (neck), smrt (death), and the notorious tongue-twister strč prst skrz krk (stick a finger through your throat). These are not spelling tricks or abbreviations — they are ordinary, frequent, fully pronounceable words. The secret is that in Czech the consonants r and l can do a job English reserves for vowels: they can be the nucleus of a syllable, carrying it on their own."
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"Likely at an early stage in this whole story, the combination of a yer and either of the very sonorous liquid sounds /l/ and /r/ created something new: syllabic consonants. In a nutshell, the consonant took over the functions of the short vowels, and came to act in their stead as the core of the syllable."
As for the "Benched Gallows", for now I'm going to assume that they should be read as Gallows followed by Bench. For now I'm going to assume that they were written one on top of the other to save space and that a "Benched Gallows" has the same meaning as a Gallows followed by Bench. For now I am reading Bench, EVA "ch" ( ch ), as cz or č.
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cfh
74 matches, in f1r, f67r2, f89v2 and 59 other folios.
ckh
907 matches, in f1r, f46r, f67r2 and 182 other folios.
cph
217 matches, in f46r, f1r, f67r2 and 119 other folios.
cth
945 matches, in f67r2, f1r, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and 189 other folios.
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"Czech is famous for words that appear to have no vowel at all: vlk (wolf), prst (finger), krk (neck), smrt (death), and the notorious tongue-twister strč prst skrz krk (stick a finger through your throat). These are not spelling tricks or abbreviations — they are ordinary, frequent, fully pronounceable words. The secret is that in Czech the consonants r and l can do a job English reserves for vowels: they can be the nucleus of a syllable, carrying it on their own."
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"Likely at an early stage in this whole story, the combination of a yer and either of the very sonorous liquid sounds /l/ and /r/ created something new: syllabic consonants. In a nutshell, the consonant took over the functions of the short vowels, and came to act in their stead as the core of the syllable."
As for the "Benched Gallows", for now I'm going to assume that they should be read as Gallows followed by Bench. For now I'm going to assume that they were written one on top of the other to save space and that a "Benched Gallows" has the same meaning as a Gallows followed by Bench. For now I am reading Bench, EVA "ch" ( ch ), as cz or č.
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cfh
74 matches, in f1r, f67r2, f89v2 and 59 other folios.
ckh
907 matches, in f1r, f46r, f67r2 and 182 other folios.
cph
217 matches, in f46r, f1r, f67r2 and 119 other folios.
cth
945 matches, in f67r2, f1r, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and 189 other folios.