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

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 3, 2001, 23:09
SuomenkieliMaa wrote:
> By the way, anyone know of a natlang which has triple > vowels, and commonly makes us of them?
Well, there are words in Japanese like _joou_ "Queen", where _ou_ is an orthographic convention for [o:], thus it's a triple long "o". There's even at least one quadruple /o/ that I've encountered, the title _kouou_ "Duke" (as well as a anime character's surname, Hououji) Of course, in these examples, these are compound words, joou = jo "woman" + ou "king", kouou = kou "duke" + ou "king" (this title was used in an anime for a duke who ruled his own country, not under someone else, I'm not sure if the title is a normal word or not) Of course, in sentences, you could theoretically have as many as 8 of the same vowel, "Kouou o oou" "(I) cover the Duke" :-) Maybe more ... kouou o oou ookami "The wolf who covers the Duke". May not be the most logical sentence, but that's not the point here. :-) As for consonants, Welsh allows four "l"'s in a row. Of course, a double l in Welsh is a single sound, so it's really just an orthographic issue. -- "No just cause can be advanced by terror" ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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