Re: Ng'and'ana
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 24, 2002, 7:08 |
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En réponse à Elliott Belser <renyard@...>:
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> Okay... question. Is a dipthong 'two vowels of a language spoken as
> one sound?' Because I don't think that the engandan ae and y are
> dipthongs, I think that they're their own characters.
>
You're mixing matters of orthography with matters of phonology. English "I" is
only one letter, but it does represent a diphtongue (usually /aI/, but it
depends on dialect), that's to say a vocalic sound that begins and ends at
different places, thus best described as two vowels pronounced together without
hiatus. English is full of those dihptongues written as one letter, so that
English speakers have a hard time understanding that those sounds are not
simple but composed.
Christophe.
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