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

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.

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