tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 19 03:13:45 1995
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Re: Reopening CVC
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- Subject: Re: Reopening CVC
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 06:13:12 -0400
In a message dated 95-10-18 17:02:21 EDT, you write:
>In Klingon, {w} and {y} are considered consonants.
>
>
True.
But, let's go a step further. Let's look at TKD pp 16-17.
{aw}, {ey}, {Iw}, {oy}, etc. are dipthongs, new sounds altogether. In this
sense, as in languages here on Earth, including English, in which {w} and {y}
are vowels--actually semivowels--these two so-called consonants are virtual
vowels.
Remember the saying we learned in English class as children: A, e, i, o, and
u are the vowels; and sometimes w and y.
This is not Hawaiian, in which {w} remains a consonant at all times and
vowels are individually pronounced, forming no dipthongs.
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