Re: [bpfk] Month Names (WAS: official cmavo form)

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Alex Burka scripsit:

> > {gai'amsi} doesn't have a consonant cluster in the first five letters after 
> > removing y'y and ybu.
> 
> This is true, but even with no cluster there is nowhere for it to
> break up (since y'ybu can't start or end a word and -ms- is not an
> initial cluster). So, at least under camxes, it is a zi'evla.

Nevertheless, that consonant cluster is a requirement.  In any case,
it can't be distinguished from "ga i'amsi" in writing, though
different in speech.

Some sequences are just junk, and that's all there is to them.

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