tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 03 07:52:42 2003
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Re: {oy}, diphthong or V+C
From: "C. Krottje" <[email protected]>
> I don't want to go too much into the phonetics here but I
> assumed that {oy} was considered a diphthong since it was
> described as a separate 'sound' in the TKD (like {aw}, {ew},
> {Iy}, etc.)
That's not quite how it's described. The text says, "Note that when a vowel
is followed by w or y, the combination of letters may not represent the same
sound it does in English spelling." It is not describing a system
dipthongs, it is just telling the English native reader that some
combinations don't sound the way they might look like they sound.
SuStel
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