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Conlangery #124: Old Irish (natlang)

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Is the End of an Initial Consonant Palatized?

The rule for a syllable is the further you stray from the stress accent, the more likely you are to be crushed. There's a marvelous verb form that involves suffixing a consonant which produces a consonant cluster and they're like, well, we hate that. And so the entire cluster is deleted. The whole cluster is gone. You have actually some verb forms where the only thing left of what you and I would usually consider the verb is the initial consonant. So it's just, it's insane. Now let's transition to the most terrifying part of the Irish language. Yes.

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