Re: târuven vowels and diphthongs

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:37:16 +0200 taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin@...> writes:
> The diacritic on the second vowel tells which of the two vowels that
> is
> reduced:
>
> - if it's a grave (`), it's the second that is weak/reduced
> - if it's an acute ('), it's the first that is weak/reduced
> t.
-

I use a similar convention in the Cyrillic transliteration of
Rokbeigalmki.  a {Y} with a 'falling accent' (grave) means the diphthong
ends in /w/, a {backwards-N} with a falling accent means it ends in /j/,
and the vowels {Ò} and {È} are, respectively, /O(@)/ and /e@/, which both
to a greater (/e@/) or lesser (/O(@)/) extend have a schwa offglide.
Btw, the legal diphthongs in Rokbeigalmki are:

/ej/
/e@/
/&w/
/aj/
/aw/
/O(@)/ (not really a diphthong usually)
/Oj/


-Stephen (Steg)
 "raq shemor li `aleha, `al me'or `eineha..."