tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 14 09:33:43 1996
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diphthongs (was Re: <K'>vaD)
- From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: diphthongs (was Re: <K'>vaD)
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:22:52 -0800 (PST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Alan Anderson" at Nov 14, 96 08:14:55 am
> >In
> >any case, the point is that the name {mayq} doesn't end in {yq} though
> >it may look like it does. In fact, it ends in {q} since the {ay} group
> >is indivisible.
IMHO, {ay} is neither a group, nor a diphthong. It is one letter.
Consider the greek word 'phos'. In greek, it has only three letters, but
when it is translitereated into Roman letters, one of the letters is expanded
into two. This would certainly be an 'illegal' word if the letters were
considered separately, since the 'h' sound occurs only at the beginnings of
words. When one considers this, it would appear that {mayq} is a three-letter
ord with a perfectly legal consonant-vowel-consonant structure.
chaq jIyIQqchu'qu', 'ach vuDvam vIparHa'.
taDI'oS vIq, law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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