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On 15/06/07, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:

> cmavo, the spaces are optional. So there's no sense calling them "2
> words", "3 words" and "1 word" -- it's any of those depending on how
> you want to think about it, and 3 cmavo.

I'm pretty sure the language considers each cmavo as a separate word,
eg. for the purposes of {si} which would erase one word at a time, not
the whole unit.