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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > 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. I guess I'll wait to see the full phonemic inventory before making any further comments on this. On the Web page, could you please add ASCII IPA equivalents for all the letters, in addition to the phrase book style approximations (Boy, fAther, EE-wah, and so on). And could you list all possible diphthongs and triphthongs in the same way? That would make it much clearer for me. How many syllables in <Hawaii>? And what are they? -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _____________________________________________________ "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." -- Charles de Gaulle