Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>IIRC hiatus always imply a syllable break between the vowels (does anyone
know
>a language which has vowel clusters which are not diphtongs and still only
one
>syllable?), the symbol of syllable break (the dot) is used.
>
Have things changed?  We learned to write the diphthongs with superscripts,
(indicated here with parens) so [a(i/I)]; thus two vowels in succession (on
the line) were in hiatus by definition [ai].  Can't make this distinction in
email, of course, so we make do with [aj] or [aw] or other variants, which I
think are incorrect...from a purely technical POV.

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