Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)
| From: | Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 3, 2001, 9:12 |
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On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:00:55 -0800 SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>
writes:
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> 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."
Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran
jaspax@ juno.com
"We couldn't all be cowboys
Some of us are clowns" --Counting Crows
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