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Re: Long vowel strings ...

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 8:51
Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:26:17 -0500 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> >writes: > > Since people are discussing lengthy rows of vowels, someone may be > > happy to > > learn that there's a Argentine place called _Cauaiauaia_, and > > another one > > called _Uoiaiau_ (the later supposedly the world's longest > > vowel-only > > place-name). > > Andreas > > PS I'm not familiar with how these are actually pronounced - > > presumeably the > > orthography is Spanish-inspired. >- > >It looks like [kawajawaja] and [wojajaw].
We-ell, that's how I'd pronounce 'em if I had to (or possibly four-syllabic /U.oj.aj.aw/ since one might expect "hu" for /w/), but seeing the weirdities that goes on in orthographies around the world one can never be sure. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp