From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: double letters
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:45:33 -0400
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On Friday 13 July 2007 14:29, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> {uu} and {ii} are the only official words that contain double vowels,
> although the first of the pair can really be considered a semi-vowel
> or a semi-consonant. Those two pairs would be allowed in cmevla
> and fu'ivla too, although I don't remember any actual cases of usage.

I've seen the word for Albania spelled {ctiipyrias} or something like that.

> The status of aa, ee, and oo is not as yet settled. At least
> one proposal would not allow them, together with any other
> nucleus-nucleus clash such as ae, ao, ea, eo, oa, oe.

I consider all such pairs to be valid, and have coined a few words with them, 
such as {stagrleoxari} and {spatrleoxari} "water chestnut" and 
{koendu} "coendou" (a kind of porcupine).

phma