Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>:
>
> >
> > When two neighboring vowels are not a diphthong, are they separated by
> > hiatus or by a glottal stop? (Hmm, is there even a symbol for hiatus
> > in
> > the IPA?)
> >
>
>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?
Arguably, German. A word like "Mark" is sometimes pronounced [ma6_^k], where
the _^ signifies non-syllabicness.

>), the symbol of syllable break (the dot) is used.
>
                                                        Andreas

PS Jörg's CPA page seems to be down. Is it going to be available again?

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