Re: Webpage Update

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."

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