Re: First post & three questions

jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> Romanian has the semivocalized vowels /o/ and /e/ in the diphthongs /oa/
> and /ea/.
Interesting.  In Román, those exist as *falling* diphthongs.  Diphthongs
in Román are:
au, eu, oi, eo, oe, ea, oa, there also used to be ai, but that has since
evolved into a monophthong /&/.  Lots of vocalic segments in Román.
:-)  Nine vowels (i e E & i- u o O A) and seven diphthongs.  Also, any
vowel or diphthong can be preceeded by i or u, so one could count as
many as 21 di-/triphthongs:
au eu oi eo oe ea oa
iau ieu ioi ieo ioe iea ioa
uau ueu uoi ueo uoe uea uoa

I don't know if those are all attested tho.

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