Re: Diphthongs (was Re: 3 q's - X-Sampa)

Tamas Racsko wrote:
>
> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
>
> > since Japanese readily allows multiple vowels
> > in a row.
>
>   It's a bit off-thread, but do you know the Hungarian word
> "fiaiéi" /fiaie:i/ 'ones belonging to his sons'? It's the longest
> sequence of vowels I know.
No, I didn't know that word.  :-)  Tho, such lengthy sequences can be
found in Japanese, too, at least across word boundaries.  For example:
Aoi o aisuru, "I love Aoi [a girl's name]", there's six vowels in a
row.  :-)  I can't think of any single words with more than 3 vowels in
a row, tho.

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