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CONSONANT CLUSTERS CROSSLINGUISTICALLY Languages' Phonotactics differ as to what consonant clusters they permit. Many languages do not permit consonant clusters at all. island nation's language permits either one-term clusters or slight variations on a theme. Tahitian , Fijian , Samoan and Hawaiian are all of this sort. Standard Arabic does not permit initial consonant clusters, or more than two consecutive consonants in other positions. Finnish has initial consonant clusters natively only on South-Western dialects and on foreign loans, and only clusters of three inside the word are allowed. Most spoken languages and dialects, however, are more permissive. At the other end of the scale, the . CONSONANT CLUSTERS IN LOANWORDS Consonant clusters occurring in Loanword s do not necessarily follow the cluster limits set by the borrowing language's Phonotactics . The Ubykh Language 's root ''psta'', a loan from Adyghe , violates Ubykh's rule of no more than two initial consonants; also, the English words ''sphere'', ''sphinx'', Greek loans, violate the restraint that two Fricatives may not appear adjacently word-initially. CONSONANT CLUSTERS IN ENGLISH In English , the longest possible initial cluster is three terms, as in ''split''; the longest possible final cluster is four terms, as in ''twelfths'' and ''texts'' (and ''infarcts'' for some Rhotic accents). SEE ALSO |
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