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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 14:26
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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