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

--- Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:00:55 -0800 SuomenkieliMaa
> <suomenkieli@...>
> writes:
> >
> > By the way, anyone know of a natlang which has
> triple
> > vowels, and commonly makes us of them?
>
> Yep yep yep!  Romanian uses {iii} in several common
> words, though no
> other triple vowels.  The combination is pronounced
> [iji], and occurs
> most commonly in {copiii} meaning "the children" and
> {fiii} meaning "the
> sons."
Really, never knew that.  Is {fiii} pronounced like
the French {fille} then, I guess?

In Jpn, one can potentially force certain words
together to make triples, but it's not a common
feature.

...unlike Vyh, where you often fine words using the
honorific _hy'yy_ for instance.

Matt33



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