Re: [bpfk] official cmavo form

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> Ah. So the two-word version needn't be "a'u.ua"? I had been thinking that
> all words must begin with a consonant.

Normatively they must, but the concern is that such glottal stops will
be unstable, since they are not (in the absence of "a'ua"-style words)
necessary for word separation.  In any case, I was talking about "a ua"
[a?wa] as hard to distinguish from "a'ua" [ahwa], both tending to become
simple [awa].

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
When I wrote it I was more than a little febrile with foodpoisoning
from an antique carrot that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith
in the benignancy of vegetables.  --And Rosta

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