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	LINGUIST List 10.930: Waals: Dutch Syllables
		Consonants in triconsonantal clusters were not realized any shorter than in biconsonantal clusters, i.e., the locality effect observed in the onset clusters also applied to codas.
		Triconsonantal clusters were again shown to be compositional with respect to duration.
		For triconsonantal clusters, preceding vowel length did not have an effect on the duration of the cluster (although no statistics were provided except for mean values).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/10/10-930.html (2582 words)

	Pegasus Nest // conlang // naracze: morphology
		Naracze is characterized by triconsonantal morphology, which I borrowed from the Semitic languages.
		Triconsonantal morphology takes this idea to extremes: the majority of words in Naracze can be derived in a regular fashion from a root (like "dream" in the example above) of three consonants (hence "triconsonantal"), to which affixes are added to derive particular forms.
		Certain words in Naracze don't fit neatly into the triconsonantal morphology scheme.
	pegasus.cityofveils.com /nara-morphology.phtml (599 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The quirk vowel: One of the notable things about the “quirk vowel” in Akkadian is its position in the past tense form of the verb.
		Outline Deutscher’s argument that the “quirk vowel” is a relic of a time in Proto-Semitic that pre-dates the development of the Semitic triconsonantal roots.
		Can you explain what D means in the bottom paragraph of 207 when he says that speakers form “higher-level analogies” Analogy as a craving for order.
	id-archserve.ucsb.edu /moodle/moodledata/58/20H_craving_order.doc (382 words)

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		In a biconsonantal root with a final sonorant (6a) the target is at the edge, but in a triconsonantal root (6b) glottalization must travel into the root to find the appropriate target (Archangeli (1983)).
		In the triconsonantal root in (12c) there is no way to parse the feature since there is no post-vocalic sonorant, nor is there space for a full glottal stop without epenthesizing a vowel, so the feature is not expressed.
		But when the root is triconsonantal and contains no glottalizable sonorant, as shown in the tableau in (26), the only way for the glottal to come to light would be if an extra vowel were epenthesized, and thus an additional syllable created.
	roa.rutgers.edu /files/29-1094/roa-29-zoll-1.doc (5122 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Akkadian
		Akkadian, however, is infectional, meaning that the basic form of a word, called a root, can be modified in a myriad of ways to create words of related but different meanings.
		In particular, the basis of Semitic languages is the triconsonantal root, which is a sequence of three consonants representing the most basic and abstract form of a word.
		For example, in Arabic, the triconsonantal root ktb represent the idea of writing, but by itself it doesn't mean anything.
	www.ancientscripts.com /akkadian.html (1201 words)

	Ņaranis Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Around 80-90% of all the Ņaranis roots are triconsonantal, consisting of three consonants.
		However, there is a sizeable amount of quadraconsonantal (four consonants, mostly onomatopoeic or foriegn borrowings) or biconsonantal (two consonants, mostly archaic or loans from another language using biconsonantal roots) roots.
		At the end of a word, they usually cause the last vowel to lengthen (and both are spelled as h in conjugations of this rèney'eh).
	www.thegreatsleep.com /serakus/language/naranis/grammar.html (4689 words)

	Megdevi or The Folly of Youth
		An Arabic-style language was ideal, then, because I could come up with a bunch of triconsonantal roots which I could assign to some basic semantic concepts, and then use derivational strategies to devise specific words.
		If I got rid of the triconsonantal root system of Megdevi (which isn't very natural), though, Megdevi would no longer be Megdevi, and there'd be no reason to call it Megdevi.
		This just means that this instantiation of a triconsonantal root system is poor and displeases me. Even the verbs, which I do like, need tweaking.
	dedalvs.free.fr /megdevi.html (6695 words)

	LINGUIST List 15.1554: Historical Linguistics: Levin (2002)
		16), is the biconsonantal structure which sometimes occurs in a triconsonantal manifestation.
		The distribution of _e_ as part of roots is similar to that of pronouns: There are several proposed correspondences between Semitic and Greek/Latin but only few include Sanskrit, which, according to Levin, is mainly due to phonological reasons as Sanskrit has a simplified vowel system compared to the Indo-European parent language.
		Although most posited cognate pairs involve triconsonantal roots, there is also an example for a biconsonantal root, the noun (or, in Hebrew a verb as well) 'seat', H. /s'eï¿½b'et'/ vs.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/15/15-1554.html (4113 words)

	Hebrew Language
		There it is spoken by most of the 4.5 million Jews of that country.
		Grammatically, Hebrew is typical of the Semitic tongues in that so many words have a triconsonantal root consisting of three consonants separated by vowels.
		Changes in, or omissions of, the vowels alter the meaning of a root.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/H/Hebrew_Language.html (434 words)

	The Amazigh Voice, December 1995 - March 1996
		The examination of the above word-list leads us to conclude that, in Tamazight, the word ``forehead'' derives from a triconsonantal root that contains a combination of the sounds ``n,'' ``y,'' and ``r'' which, although their positions appear to be unstable, are consistently present in about 42% of the cases listed here.
		In some regions, such as Kabylie, it specifically means bone marrow, but in the Mzab, Wargla, and Oued Righ regions it is extended to the brain which is thought of as the ``marrow of the skull.''
		Although bi and monoconsonantal roots exist (in significant proportions) as well, they actually originate from triconsonantal roots which have lost one or two radicals due to phonetic erosion.
	www.ee.umd.edu /~sellami/DEC95/language.html (866 words)

	zompist bboard :: View topic - Lenani is up
		Triconsonantal Roots, Erg-Abs structure, four cases (though not quite the same), animate (subdivided into masculine and feminine) versus inanimate genders (though I also have a divine), morphological negative, suffixed definite articles (hey, mine are in -l too!) heck, even the consonantal phonology is almost exactly the same!
		I appreciated the explanations of the ergative-absolutive system and the manner in which the triconsonantal roots work (if I ever make use of either in a conlang, I'm going to have to refrain from the temptation to simply steal ideas from you and others...).
		Other features that struck me included the system of verbal moods and the extensive verbal prefixes, as well as the connectors and the locative verbs (by the time I got to them, I was already wondering how Old Skourene handled prepositions--or not, as it turns out).
	spinnoff.com /zbb/viewtopic.php?p=258418 (1913 words)

	Pegasus Nest // conlang // czevraqis: morphology
		Czevraqis is characterized by triconsonantal morphology, which I borrowed from the Semitic languages.
		Triconsonantal morphology takes this idea to extremes: the majority of words in Czevraqis can be derived in a regular fashion from a root (like "dream" in the example above) of three consonants (hence "triconsonantal"), to which affixes are added to derive particular forms.
		Certain words in Czevraqis don't fit neatly into the triconsonantal morphology scheme.
	pegasus.cityofveils.com /cvr-morphology.phtml (599 words)

	[No title]
		In some words the form of the template is obscured, so for example, in [2e] the initial monomoraic template syllable du is buried within a bimoraic syllable with a coda.
		But in [13a] there is a triconsonantal sequence that must be broken somewhere, and as the tableau in [14] shows, the vowel appears suffix internally, between the T and the N, preserving morpheme alignment.
		In [17b] the triconsonantal sequence N W S is broken up by an epenthetic vowel between the N and the W on the surface.
	roa.rutgers.edu /files/28-0000/roa-28-zoll-1.doc (4512 words)

	A brief introduction to Almaqerin
		NOTE: For these two last categories expressing a containment, possession or attribution relationship, suffix -yu is seen in words deriving from triconsonantal roots with indifferent vowels (GAWEN), suffixes -áve and -ove for roots with a characteristic vowel (NÓRED, *NÓZEK).
		The first one is the more frequent; it is composed of all the verbs with a triconsonantal root (either natural or extended).
		At the present tense, the verbal stem is obtained by adding the radical -e- to this root.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Cavern/9443/akerin01_uk.html (3476 words)

	Jales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Jales is a conlang created as a magical language for the Live Action Roleplaying game Maces and Magic based in Eugene, Oregon.
		Jales uses a semetic-like triconsonantal system for deriving words.
		However, syntactic relationships are indicated entirely using fusional particles.
	talideon.com /concultures/wiki?doc=Jales (61 words)

	Old Skourene
		Verbs are declined largely by changing the vowels within an unchanging triconsonantal root.
		They are conjugated very much like triconsonantal verbs, with some adaptations.
		For nouns derived from triconsonantal verbs, the infix is added after C3.
	www.zompist.com /lenani.htm (7834 words)

	Visual Metaphors, Visual Communication and the Organization of Cognitive Space
		The alphabet (CVCV) was based on a triconsonantal system of writing (CCC) common to the language of the Near East and it was this system that provided the rationale for alphabetic writing.
		The focus of this paper is on the organization of visual space and how this organization differs across cultures.
		With the advent of the triconsonantal root writing systems of Hamitic and Semitic writing systems, this connection to the practice of seeing was divorced and more emphasis was placed on theoretical models of representation (Olson, 1994).
	www.louisville.edu /~rnstcl01/R-Visual-Lit.html (3804 words)

	Torah Codes: Don't Jump to Conclusions
		Because of the triconsonantal rule, many words are extremely short, so a given snippet of text, with spaces between the words removed, could be interpreted in innumerable ways.
		This "astonishing" fact is merely a result of the triconsonantal structure of the Hebrew language: conceptually related words have similar structures.
		So, if the three words GITBASH, UGTABESH, and G'TBUSHA (fictitious words) are linguistically related, they naturally have the same gematria value, as they differ only in diacritical marks, which are not letters and therefore do not contribute to the gematria sum of the word.
	www.nsli.com /.../torah (1667 words)

	Pictic - FrathWiki
		Rather, the three families in question form a linguistic area (see this article for details).
		The Pictic languages show ergative argument marking and triconsonantal morphology.
		This page was last modified 11:38, 2 March 2006.
	wiki.frath.net /Pictic (137 words)

	[No title]
		Then I thought it could be steganographic arabic or hebrew, since many of the letters resemble rotated/mirrored arabic letters and early arabic numerals (in fact, some resemble the present day devanagari numerals!).
		The structure of the words also resembles the triconsonantal root -system of semitic languages, the 'o's could be articles or vocal marks, and the poor/strange quality of the drawings could be the result of deliberately trying to link the MS into a different cultural environment (maybe just to mislead the would-be decipherers?).
		The assumed arabic origin would also fit to the lunar Hijra calendar possibility proposed on the list.
	www.astro.helsinki.fi /~marianna/notes1.txt (1156 words)

	Dave's Language Creation Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		I got to a point where all I had to do was add triconsonantal roots.
		The Babel Text is here if you want to get an idea for what the language was like) was really a very clever code for English.
		Its triconsonantal roots encoded semantic categories from which nouns, adjectives and verbs could be made.
	dedalvs.free.fr /notes.html (13069 words)

	Talk:Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		4) Quote: "These languages all exhibit a pattern of words consisting of triconsonantal roots"
		COMMENT: How about putting "3-consonant" in parentheses after the word "triconsonantal"?
		"These languages all exhibit a pattern of words consisting of triconsonantal (3-consonant) roots"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Semitic_languages (7017 words)

	BH, Jouon on syntax?
		DW:...Then what would you say is the foundational form of the verb?
		PK: The only foundational form I would recognise is the triconsonantal root.
		All surface forms are derived by adding various affixes (including infixes) to that.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/1999-May/003100.html (934 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive Browse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		So if we call the Proto-Canaanite signs syllabic, we also have to call the Egyptian signs—including the biconsonantal and triconsonantal ones—syllabic as well.
		Like the Egyptian signs that inspired them, the Proto-Canaanite signs represented only consonants and gave no indication of vowels, which are the essential features of syllables.
		Unlike the Egyptian signs, however, the Proto-Canaanite signs represented only single consonants (there were no biconsonantal or triconsonantal signs), and there was only one sign to correspond to each consonantal sound or phoneme.
	www.basarchive.org /sample/bswbBrowse.asp?PubID=BSAO&Volume=1&Issue=1&ArticleID=17 (3113 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Egyptian
		Like Proto-Sinaitic-derived scripts, Egyptians wrote only with consonants.
		As a result, all phonograms are uniconsonantal, biconsonantal, and triconsonantal.
		Technically we don't know what vowels went in between the consonants of each sign.
	www.ancientscripts.com /egyptian.html (1019 words)

	Book of Mormon : Translation of the Book of Mormon: LDSFAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Moroni notes that the characters of the plates were reformed Egyptian (Mormon 9:32), but he does not explain whether it was the Egyptian language itself or Hebrew written in modified Egyptian characters.
		He also indicates that limited space on the gold plates dictated the use of Egyptian rather than Hebrew; both languages omitted vowels, but only Egyptian had biconsonantal and even triconsonantal characters.
		Comparing Hebrew and Egyptian with modern American Indian languages has not revealed plentiful or obvious similarities.
	ldsfaq.byu.edu /view.asp?q=355 (248 words)

	b-greek-digest V1 #937
		Beyond those suggesed by Dale there may >be other possibilities!
		Did I mean to >write the Hebrew triconsonantal stem RXM and mistype it?
		It could be I was >trying to avoid vengeance.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-3/msg01267.html (406 words)

	Re: To a now put in her place Tigger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In Reply to: Re: To a now put in her place Tigger posted by Tiggy on September 26, 1999 at 19:27:38:
		Re: To a now put in her place Tigger Summer 15:04:19 9/28/99 (
		: Yes, but what does "triconsonantal" mean, really?
	www.9types.com /type4board/messages/2979.html (169 words)

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