{"id":18729,"date":"2020-01-20T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18729"},"modified":"2020-01-20T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:10:22","slug":"clustering-consonants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18729","title":{"rendered":"Clustering Consonants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clusters of consonants are quite common in Czech. Some words have no vowels at all. A couple that I came across recently: <strong>brzd<\/strong> [\u02c8br\u0329st] (break) and <strong>krb<\/strong> [kr\u0329p] (fireplace).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brzd<\/strong> is the genitive plural of <strong>brzda<\/strong>     (brake (in a vehicle)). Related words include: <strong>brzdit<\/strong> [\u02c8br\u0329z\u025f\u026at] (to break) and <strong>brzdn\u00fd<\/strong> [\u02c8br\u0329zdni\u02d0] (breaking).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Krb<\/strong> means fire, hearth, fireplace or ingle. Related words include: <strong>krbov\u00fd<\/strong> (relating or pertaining to fireplaces), <strong>krbov\u00e1 deska<\/strong> (hearthstone) and <strong>krbov\u00e9 n\u00e1\u010din\u00ed<\/strong> (fire irons).<\/p>\n<p>Other vowelless words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>blb [\u02c8bl\u0329p] = wally (stupid person)<\/li>\n<li>chrp [\u02c8xr\u0329p] = of cornflowers<\/li>\n<li>drhl [\u02c8dr\u0329\u0266l\u0329]= he scrubbed, scoured, rubbed<\/li>\n<li>hrkl [\u02c8\u0266r\u0329kl\u0329] = he rattled<\/li>\n<li>krk [kr\u0329k] = neck<\/li>\n<li>plch [pl\u0329x] = dormouse<\/li>\n<li>scvrkl [\u02c8st\u0361svr\u0329kl\u0329] = he shrank<\/li>\n<li>\u0161krtl [\u02c8\u0283kr\u0329tl\u0329] = he cancelled, deleted, scratched<\/li>\n<li>vlk [vl\u0329k] = wolf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:Czech_words_without_vowels\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are several tongue twisters made up of words like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/czech\/tonguetwisters\/tt1_cz.mp3\">Str\u010d prst skrz krk<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Stick your finger through your throat.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/czech\/tonguetwisters\/tt6_cs.mp3\">Smr\u017e pln skvrn zvlhl z mlh.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Morel full of stains got wet from the fog.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/czech\/tonguetwisters\/tt20_cs.mp3\">Plch zdrhl skrz drn, prv zhltl \u010dtvrthrst zrn.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>A dormouse escaped through a turf; first it swallowed a quarter-handful of grain.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/tonguetwisters\/czech.htm#czech\">See and hear more of these<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the r and l in these words funtion as semi-vowels, so you could say that they&#8217;re not really vowelless. This doesn&#8217;t make them any easier to pronounce.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:Czech_words_without_vowels\">Wiktionary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/czech-english\/krb\">bab.la<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clusters of consonants are quite common in Czech. Some words have no vowels at all. A couple that I came across recently: brzd [\u02c8br\u0329st] (break) and krb [kr\u0329p] (fireplace). Brzd is the genitive plural of brzda (brake (in a vehicle)). Related words include: brzdit [\u02c8br\u0329z\u025f\u026at] (to break) and brzdn\u00fd [\u02c8br\u0329zdni\u02d0] (breaking). Krb means fire, hearth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18729"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18755,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions\/18755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}