tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 14 15:32:17 1996
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Re: diphthongs (was Re: <K'>vaD)
- From: "Adrian (HurghwI')" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: diphthongs (was Re: <K'>vaD)
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:33:13 -0600
At 09:37 AM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
>> >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.
It seems to me that, while {ay} isn't just a pair of letters, it is also not
a letter, because pIqaD has no letter for it. I agree with the dipthong
interpretation.
>chaq jIyIQqchu'qu', 'ach vuDvam vIparHa'.
>
>taDI'oS vIq, law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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