pronounceably

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pronounceable +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

pronounceably (comparative more pronounceably, superlative most pronounceably)

  1. In a pronounceable manner.
    • 2011, Nicholas Evans, Dying Words:
      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.

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