At 07:12 AM 5/1/04 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> >Is there any way to represent a triphthong, or is {uau} necessarily
> >two syllables, either /ua,u/ or /u,au/?
>
> In Lojban, vowel groups pair from the left if possible, unless there is a
> close-comma. So "uau" is "ua,u". However, I believe that later decision
> when we tried to write the morphology algorithm said that use of
> close-commas do not create a minimal pair, so "ua,u" and "u,au" are the
> same word.
So pronouncing {uau} as a single syllable is in theory not
allowed, right?
In theory. -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org