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on 3/5/02 12:43 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: >> iua EE-wah > > I find it very difficult to pronounce a single syllable with either > /i/ or /u/ in the middle. Unless there is a great need for such > triphthongs, I would avoid them. Seriously, I said it wrong. I meant, in the case of ViV and VuV, to call them 3-vowel combinations, not triphthongs. They of course would have two syllables, and therefore not be triphthongs. Anyhow, it's academic, because y and w are back to save the day. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/