Re: Triphthongs

Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>Quite a few in Spanish (someone already mentioned _buey_) involving the 2d
>pers. pl. ending:  cambiáis, cambiéis, continuáis etc.-- though that form is
>not widely used.
Aside from those I can only gather _hioides_ (that's a bone), and
the surname _Vieytes_. But I'm not sure you can call those triphthongs;
if so, what would English _way_ be? (In fact, that would be a discussion
about whether Spanish [j] and [w] are mere allophones of [i] and [u],
or separate phonemes as in English).


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