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Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Monday, January 28, 2002, 20:23
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. >
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