Re: Babel text in da Wial suin Basa: 'De ina Babel suin Tuam'
| From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 8, 2004, 8:03 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Johansson <andjo@F...> wrote:
> Quoting "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@A...>:
> While 'ai' is rarish in MHG, it's a diphthong in every instance I
can think of.
> Any counterexamples?
Kokain... but then, Protein isn't one either.
Anyway, the point is that /aI/ is a phonemic diphthong in
German, whatever you like to spell it. Since S9 is not
German, its spelling can afford to deviate from the
tradition. As for /oI/, there seems to be a /uI/ diphthong
in its place now.
-- Christian Thalmann
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