Re: Meghean word; _aeohas_ "non-existence" (was: Common Orcish Article (Long))

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 21:51 15.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >PS Latest and possibly ugliest Meghean word; _aeohas_ "non-existence".
> >
> >                                                         Andreas
>
> How can there be an _h_ between vowels?
> I thought _h_ represented a diacritic on
> consonants in Meghean orthography.
No, it's an independent letter also in the native script.

Here, you could either analyze it as merely an orthographic trick to avoid an
unwanted |oa| sequence, or as an overenthusiastic indication of the subphonemic
glide breaking up the unwanted [o.a] sequence into [o.ja]. Without this
convention, you couldn't know whether **aeoas spelt [ajojas] or [ajewas], which
apparently troubles the megheanophones more than the existing ambiguities.

> Meghean, la nouvelle langue mechante?
Which means?

                                                      Andreas

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