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A final consonant of a Finnish word, though not a syllable, must be a coronal one; Standard Finnish does not allow final clusters of two consonants. Originally Finnish syllables could not start with two consonants but many loans containing these have added this to the inventory.
Finnish has moraic consonants: l, h and n are of interest. In Standard Finnish, they are slightly intensified before a consonant in a medial cluster: -hj-. Some dialects, like Savo and Ostrobothnian, have epenthesis instead and use the preceding vowel in clusters of type -lC-and -hC-, in Savo also -nh-.
Homosyllabic consonant clusters are mostly absent from native Finnish words, except for a small set of two-consonant sequences in syllable codas, e.g. rs in karsta. However, as many recently adopted loanwords contain clusters, e.g. strutsi from Swedish struts , ('ostrich'), they have been integrated to the modern language in varying degrees.
Nearly all of the comments on consonant clusters are actually incorrect, if we're considering modern Finnish. Via loanwords at least /m/ is somewhat established word-finally, e.g. islam, kalsium) Initial clusters: /s/ + consonant is about as well-established as stop + liquid. E.g. skeittaaja, slummi, snapsi, sponsori, stereot. Final clusters:
In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits. In the education field it is variously called a consonant cluster or a consonant blend. [1] [2]
An /eɑ/ or /eæ/ cluster also appears in many adjectives: pimeä — pimee "dark" In other areas of Finland, these clusters may have a different fate. Another common dialectal variant is the raising of /e/ to /i/ in the adjectives: pimiä. (Partitives are unaffected by this.) Some rarer versions of this suffix include -jä / -ja, -ie, and even ...
In addition, in some Finnish compound words, if the initial word ends in an e, the initial consonant of the following word is geminated: jätesäkki 'trash bag' [jætesːækːi], tervetuloa 'welcome' [terʋetːuloa]. In certain cases, a v after a u is geminated by most people: ruuvi 'screw' /ruːʋːi/, vauva 'baby' [ʋauʋːa].
In modern Finnish, such words now appear as a weak grade consonant followed by a word-final vowel, but the word will have a special assimilative final consonant that causes gemination to the initial consonant of the next syllable. This assimilative final consonant, termed a ghost consonant [2] is a remnant of the former final *-k and *-h. Forms ...