Re: English syllable structure (was,for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

jogloran wrote:
> I've always wanted to know: by that definition, does [_ja] (pya, bya,
> cha, ja etc) count as one or two morae?
One.  Pya, etc., are pronounced in the same span of time as Pa, etc.  It
just happens to be written with two characters.

If Kana were a conscript of mine, I would've made those double kana into
ligatures.  :-)  That's what happened historically in the Kassi syllabry
with the CL characters, historically ligatures of the obsolete Cë (ë =
/@/) and the LV characters

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