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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pronounceably en · ADV

Etymology

From pronounceable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a pronounceable manner.
    • For many years the world-record holder for the most consonants was the Caucasian language Ubykh […] But it has now been eclipsed by the reigning champion, Xóõ or, more pronounceably, Taa […], which is spoken by about 4,000 people in Botswana and Namibia, and which has somewhere between 84 and 159 consonant phonemes depending on the analysis. 2011, Nicholas Evans, Dying Words:

Forms

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more pronounceably Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most pronounceably Degree=Sup lexicographic