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In article <1992Oct31.164636.29788@cs.hut.fi> linnan@sandman.cs.hut.fi (Matti Linnanvuori) writes:
>  /l/ or /n/ don't form syllables without in Finnish, if that's what you
>meant. An uneducated guess, why not: Finnish doesn't include schwa vowels.

Not a good guess.  Slovak has no schwa vowel either, but it has
syllabic /l/ and /r/ (as well as syllabic /l:/ and /r:/).

>  I'm not a linguist. I don't know how phonemes are syllabificated. 
>I only wrote about how words are split into syllables in writing. 

_Om, Ra:m_.  That's _not_ what this discussion is about.  Hyphenation
is not the same thing as syllabification (and doesn't really have to
have much to do with it).

>In Finnish syllables are written split with dashes more often than in
>English.

I should hope you use hyphens, not dashes!  By the way, are you saying
you split syllables?!  I'd imagine that syllables (or some syllaboid
units) are only separated; words are split.

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