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From:Josh Roth <fuscian@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 20:43
In a message dated 5/12/1999 5:21:43 AM, bsarempt@REMPT.XS4ALL.NL writes:
>I was wondering about the pronounciation of Eloshtan - I notice that >verbbs are negated by doubling the first vowel, and questions are >marked by tripling the first vowel. > >Is this actually a three-way distinction according to length >([a],[a.], [a:], or something like that), or is there hiatus between >every vowel ([a], [a'a], [a'a'a'])?
Actually "aa" represents a diphthong - - it could really be more accurately represented as "ay" (that's pronounced like the English word "eye"), but I write it as "aa." When you have three in a row, the first two are pronounced like "eye" and then the third is a normal "a" - - this could be represented as "aya."
>Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
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