tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 03 09:21:20 2003
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Re: {oy}, diphthong or V+C
From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
> The combination "oy" does appear in the pronunciation guide, where it
> describes the Klingon combination {oy}. Thus {oy} should be pronounced
> roughly the same as "oy", which to me indicates it's a diphthong.
If /oy/ were a Klingon dipthong, there would be words with the pattern CoyC.
The only such words are Coy'. If /oy/ were truly a dipthong, wouldn't there
be words like Coyb or CoyD? There aren't.
SuStel
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