Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 3, 2001, 9:28 |
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<<By the way, anyone know of a natlang which has triple
vowels, and commonly makes us of them?>>
Why, look no farther than the world's most perfect language, Hawaiian!
~:D Of course, I see the two responses you've gone have been like vowels in
trios... Did you mean only vowels of the same quality, or just vowels in
general? Because if you stick two like vowels together in Hawaiian, a
glottal stop is automatically inserted in between (which is why it need not
be represented orthographically), so "Hawaii" is [havAi?i]. And it, of
course, has three vowels next to each other. :)
-David
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