Re: double phonemes

>Another question.  In some languages, two phonemes, usually consonants,
>get placed together frequently, and are often represented by one letter.
>Examples are Sanskrit /ks./ (s. = retroflex s) and /jn~/ (n~ = palatal
>n), Russian /StS/, and Greek and Latin /ks/.  These are often reduced to
>a single consonant in modern dialects.  Double vowels of this sort would
>be diphthongs, such as Latin /ae/, /oe/.
>
>Is there a term for this phenomenon, and what other natlang examples are
>there?

I have no idea what it *should* be called, but I call it clusterisation, and
I created a whole script based on the concept. The script sdtarted out as an
attempt to create a hangul-like script for English, until I realised I would
require about 2000000 glyphs. I settled on one glyph per consonant or vowel
cluster, teh results are at:

www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~fav1ugs/demua/font.htm

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