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on 3/6/02 1:14 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > 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. Will do. And sorry again about the 'triphthong' screw-up. > > How many syllables in <Hawaii>? And what are they? Three? /ha waj i/? -- >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/