Re: Wofir aka The Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> But even "eau" itself may not be a proper triphthong...
It's not even a diphthong, it's /o/

> But if the vowels are different, they are pronounced with a
> distinct glottal stop between them. Not sure how realistic this is,
> though...
I don't see any reason why it couldn't happen, but it's not necessary,
/e.i/ is possible.  In addition, you could eliminate diphthongs by
placing them in the past, and deriving monopthongs from them, e.g., a+i
-> e

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