Definitions
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- noun The consonantal sounds of a language collectively considered, or their special character; pronunciation or phonology of consonants.
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- noun The (study of the)
consonant sounds of alanguage
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Examples
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In fact, one might even say that deletion is less preferable than metathesis because the former process destroys the inherited consonantism and can reduce intelligibility.
Pre-IE Syncope and possibly expanding the Metathesis rule 2008
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While the consonantism for the Semitic verb "to know" is normally reconstructed as *ydʕ, Old Canaanite Cuneiform Texts of the Third Millennium 1979 speaks on the uncertainty of the root's form on page 193, footnote 11: "It is not clear whether to reconstruct w or y as the initial consonant of the Proto-Semitic root."
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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While the consonantism for the Semitic verb "to know" is normally reconstructed as *ydʕ, Old Canaanite Cuneiform Texts of the Third Millennium 1979 speaks on the uncertainty of the root's form on page 193, footnote 11: "It is not clear whether to reconstruct w or y as the initial consonant of the Proto-Semitic root."
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In fact, one might even say that deletion is less preferable than metathesis because the former process destroys the inherited consonantism and can reduce intelligibility.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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The statistical chances of something like this being coincidental i.e. the phonetically coherent ablaut pervading the numeral system in clockwork fashion and the common consonantism between all pairs while simultaneously showing a conscious mathematical pattern of doubling are too comically insignificant to entertain.
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And yes, I am still getting used to superfluous consonantism, which I reckon occurs to make one's band name distinct via Google.
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*kʷetwárχ kámtχ 'four tens'I think this accounts for the data better and may help us move forward with the origins of the IE numerals because it's simply not necessarily the case that the decadic ending and the word for 'ten' must have exactly the same consonantism.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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*kʷetwárχ kámtχ 'four tens'I think this accounts for the data better and may help us move forward with the origins of the IE numerals because it's simply not necessarily the case that the decadic ending and the word for 'ten' must have exactly the same consonantism.
Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads 2008
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