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Re: Tetraphthongs (was: Triphthongs)

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Monday, August 14, 2000, 11:35
FFlores wrote:

>Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote: > >>Quite a few in Spanish (someone already mentioned _buey_) involving the 2d >>pers. pl. ending: cambiis, cambi is, continuis 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).
I can't help myself... but I have to say that Danish has something that may well be called a tetraphthong: bjerg [bjEQw?] ~ [bjEQ?w] (where: [Q] = low back semivowel) -kristian- 8)