[lojban-beginners] Re: .ea .eia .e.a .oe .oue .o.e

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
> Selon Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
>
> > {ea} is two syllables. It is pronounced exactly like {e,a}.
>
> Okay. So you don't consider {ea} a diphthong. Is this just
> your  personal view or is it "official"?

It's official. The only diphthongs in Lojban are the four falling
diphthongs: ai, au, ei, oi and the ten/twelve rising diphthongs:
ia, ie, ii, io, iu, ua, ue, ui, uo, uu, (and iy, uy, though there's
no official word that uses these two).

ea, if it's to be allowed, is two syllables, like the oa in ioaxim.
No official word has any non-diphthong vowel-vowel combination,
though.

> > {o,i}, on the
> > other hand, is not pronounced like {oi}, but is the same word.
>
> Does this mean I can always pronounce a diphthong as two
> separated vowels and this would be correct?

It would be acceptable, although the diphthong pronunciation is
the norm. For determining where the stress falls, it must be counted
as one syllable even if you separate it as two. So for example you
could pronounce {bra,bo,i} instead of {bra,boi}, but the stress must
remain on the syllable bra.

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