vowelless

Nearly vowelless, that is, meaning the aeiou familiar to speakers of English and Spanish.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2 1986

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

The many "vowelless" spellings like leprnal and atrśrce show that this was a phonemic fact in later Etruscan.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

The many "vowelless" spellings like leprnal and atrśrce show that this was a phonemic fact in later Etruscan.

Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009

However, you probably didn't mean that this was an actual consonant cluster **ndʰ- but rather that you were referring to the seemingly "vowelless" syllable *n̥-.

Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you 2008

The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself.

“Ms.”-ing the point « Motivated Grammar 2010

So while the name of the god Amon was spelled out as ỉ-m-n in the vowelless script, the name was pronounced *ʔAmúna in the second millenium BCE hence Coptic amoun.

Archive 2010-02-01 2010

So while the name of the god Amon was spelled out as ỉ-m-n in the vowelless script, the name was pronounced *ʔAmúna in the second millenium BCE hence Coptic amoun.

Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/ 2010

With what I've learned so far about the evolution of the Ancient Egyptian language as it evolved into Coptic, I'm going to go out on a limb and deduce for myself that the vowelless transliterated words qn and ỉkn were probably pronounced around 1500 BCE something like *qánә 'reed' and *ʔәkánә 'basin, bowl', both matching the vocalisms of the other reflexes as well as accounting for the later Coptic result.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

With what I've learned so far about the evolution of the Ancient Egyptian language as it evolved into Coptic, I'm going to go out on a limb and deduce for myself that the vowelless transliterated words qn and ỉkn were probably pronounced around 1500 BCE something like *qánә 'reed' and *ʔәkánә 'basin, bowl', both matching the vocalisms of the other reflexes as well as accounting for the later Coptic result.

Mediterranean wanderwort fiesta 2009