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Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

From:Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>
Date:Saturday, November 3, 2001, 18:50
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Constructed Languages List > [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]Namens SuomenkieliMaa > Verzonden: zaterdag 3 november 2001 10:01 > Aan: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > Onderwerp: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...) > > --- Dan Jones <dan@...> wrote: > > >Maarten van Beek > > For some reason I think doubled vowels in English > > look ugly, but nice in Dutch. I also love the > > sequence <ij> > > Really, you dislike double vowels in English? For me, > that is a small part of the mystique of a lang - > whether or it can double or even triple (I can only > think of Finnish which might triple, although they > consider a and a/omlaut as separate letters but it > still can look like 3 a's!). > Hmm, I personally love doubles and triples as one > might have guessed having seen a sample from my > conlang, Vya:a:h! > > By the way, anyone know of a natlang which has triple > vowels, and commonly makes us of them?
Wel, we do in some way. Not in root words, but it might happen across a syllable break. A dutch word like "geëerd" (honored), where the diacritic is not phonetic, but only included to indicate the syllable break. I love words with long vowel sequences... even though they are not the same quality. A Dutch word like "koeieuier", meaning "cow's udder"... try to pronounce that if you are not familiar with Dutch phonology. We use a lot of vowel combinations in general in Dutch, though never more than two of the same quality following each other (well, maybe in compositions, but they don't count, and I can't think of any either). I personally love the combinations "ieu",and "eeu" which are always followed by a "w". "nieuw"(new), "eeuw" (century). Maarten van Beek

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