Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
The Mandarin word for four sz is an example of a word with a vowel.


Do you mean without a vowel? It's normally spelled sì, isn't it? It definitely contains a vowel sound, at least it sounds like a vowel to me.

Some say Nuxálk has long strings of consonants, for instance here. I can't copy it because this board doesn't handle unicode well. Anyway, it looks like a string of consonants, but I think there'd be some phonetic vowels in there somewhere.

Last edited by goofy; 11/10/08 04:12 AM.