Re: MeloChalaka
| From: | Heather Rice <florarroz@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 2:17 |
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--- Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> Heather Rice wrote:
> > > So, what are â ª î ´ and ó¿ ¦gt; > >
> > Sorry, those are what I meant by circumflex.
>
> Right, so what's their pronunciation, that's what I
> meant. â ©s a
> diphthong, but WHAT diphthong? /aj/? /aw/?
> Something else? I'd guess
> /ej/ /ij/ /ow/ and /uw/ for ê ® í±‚í±®d ó¬ ¢ut is
that
> correct?
a = a in cake
e = e in beet
i = i in bite
o = o in boat
u = eu in eucalyptis
(I didn't right any special marks or accents because I
didn't know if they would be readable when after I
sent the email)
When I was inventing this language, I kept getting
confused with my diphthongs, because my Spanish
studies suggested these combinations - ai, ei, oi, ui,
but my English backround gave other suggestions ay,
aw, ou, etc. To remember, I just decided that
whatever the name of the vowels is, that is its
diphthong. So, whenever I forgot whether "a" is ai
(like in kite) or ay, I just had to say my ABCs.
Heather Rice
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