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SYLLABIC CONSONANTS OCCURENCE

Syllabic consonants, most often [m, n, r, l], are consonants (typically sonorants) that can appear as the nucleus of the syllable. Czech and Serbo-Croatian are well known for this, where there can be entire sentences without vowels: E.g.   Škrt plch z mlh Brd pln skvrn z mrv prv hrd scvrnkl z brzd skrz trs chrp v krs vrb mls mrch srn čtvrthrst zrn. 

English also allows an [l] as syllabic in bottle, cattle, or [m] in rythm, or [n] in button.