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Re: [bpfk] official cmavo form


On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:34 PM, <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
My vote comes with the qualification that the special GV cases /ii/ and /uu/ be made illegal (as others have suggested).  With all respect, it strikes me as perverse to be seriously considering whacking harmless syllables like /miu/ and /kua/ from cmevla when sequences like /lei/, /leii/, /leiii/ and /leiiii/ are all legal and contrastive, as are presumably /u'u/, /uu'u/, /u'uu/, etc.

"leiii" and "u'uu" are not legal by camxes, which does not allow a glide after a diphthong (so "lei,ii" is out) and does not allow a glide after the apostrophe (so "u'uu" is out), 

"lei", "le,ii" and "le,ii,ii" contrast in number of syllables. 
 
I would also advocate the following:

- forbid GV in fu'ivla/ma'ovla except after /./ (word-initially).  The pronunciation of disyllabic /ia/ and that of /i'a/ are too close.

Would it be more distinct word-initially than in other positions?  It seems that .i,avla vs .i'avla are as distinct/undistinct as mi,avla vs mi'avla.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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