resonants

Lacking vowels or glides to form a syllabic nucleus, the next likely phonemes used at the heart of a syllable are resonants ie. liquids and nasals.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

Likewise, Etruscan doesn't need intervening schwas neighbouring resonants to "make it pronounceable" to the Etruscan tongue.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

Syllabic resonants exist in other languages like Sanskrit, so it doesn't need further explanation.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

I think "impossible" consonant clusters are not proof of syllabic resonants.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

We first need to be aware that Etruscan had four syllabic resonants after Syncope had occured around 500 BCE l, m, n and r.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

We know with certainty that they're syllabic resonants in Etruscan.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

We first need to be aware that Etruscan had four syllabic resonants after Syncope had occured around 500 BCE l, m, n and r.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

As I said, they had syllabic resonants which were directly reflected in the seemingly "vowelless" spelling wherever l, m, n and r are found sandwiched between consonants.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'.

Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads 2008

For example, I reason that MIE *ʔékwa- "horse" and *kérna "horn" would likely have resisted Syncope because *kw and *rn wouldn't have been valid syllable codae in early Late IE, the former violating sonority hierarchy and the latter showing adjacent tautosyllabic resonants which would have offended language-specific phonotactic restrictions at the time.

What happened to Pre-IE's inanimate thematics? 2008