<p>ANADEW: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuxalk_language#Syllables" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Nuxalk aka Bella Coola</a> is a natural language famous for its long chains of plosives. However, calling the plosives <em>syllables</em> in this case raises another question: Is syllable a term that is suitable for the description of Nuxalk, or should one say that there are no well-defined syllables in Nuxalk (see <a href="https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/q/29230/9781">this question on the linguistics stackexchange</a> for more on this).</p>
<p>For use in conlangs, see also <a href="https://conlang.stackexchange.com/q/771/142">Are there human beatbox inspired conlangs?</a> on this site, five years ago there was kind of a &quot;no&quot; answer to the second question.</p>

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<p>Fricatives and Sonorants can be in a nucleus of a syllable. Can plosives also act as a syllable? If so, do any of your conlangs have this feature?</p>

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Syllabic plosives
# Syllabic plosives

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-01-26)

Fricatives and Sonorants can be in a nucleus of a syllable. Can plosives also act as a syllable? If so, do any of your conlangs have this feature?

**Tags:** conlang-creation, naturalism, phonetics


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### Answer by username_1 on 2024-01-26. Score: 2

ANADEW: [Nuxalk aka Bella Coola](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuxalk_language#Syllables) is a natural language famous for its long chains of plosives. However, calling the plosives *syllables* in this case raises another question: Is syllable a term that is suitable for the description of Nuxalk, or should one say that there are no well-defined syllables in Nuxalk (see [this question on the linguistics stackexchange](https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/q/29230/9781) for more on this).

For use in conlangs, see also [Are there human beatbox inspired conlangs?](https://conlang.stackexchange.com/q/771/142) on this site, five years ago there was kind of a "no" answer to the second question.


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