Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!hania From: hania@rabbit.UUCP (Hania Gajewska) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Words without vowels? Message-ID: <3009@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 13:29:39 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.3009 Posted: Wed Jul 25 13:29:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jul-84 04:47:28 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 9 I don't know about any other languages, but both "w" and "z" are vowel-less words in Polish, and "Krk" is the name of an island of the coast of Yougolavia (Neither neither w or z are vowels in Polish, and I alobelieve that neither k nor r are vowels in any of the languages spoken in Yougoslavia. I think the name is Serbo-Croatian, and I also think there are other vowel-less words int hat that language). Hania Gajewska