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Controversial points in the morphology

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 21:51, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> We can group vowel pairs as follows:
>
> 1- ai au ei oi
> Permitted in cmavo, fu'ivla and cmene.

OK

> 2- ia ie ii io iu ua ue ui uo uu
> Permitted in cmavo, fu'ivla and cmene word initially.
> Should they be permitted after a consonant?
> Should they be permitted after '?
> Should they be permitted in some but not all of cmavo, fu'ivla or cmene?

Should be permitted anywhere in fu'ivla and anywhere except at the end in
cmene. Examples: ckankua (skunk), strutione (ostrich), uiski (whisky),
UAcintyn (Washington), niuIORK (New York). Whether they should be allowed in
cmavo longer than two letters, I don't know.

> 3- aa ae ao ea ee eo eu oa oe oo ou
> Should they be permitted at all?
> Should they be permitted exclusively in cmavo, fu'ivla or cmene?

Should be allowed in fu'ivla and cmene. Example: stagrleoxari (water
chestnut). Not sure about cmavo.

> 4- iy uy
> Permitted in cmene only. Reserved as a hyphen.

OK. Should not be considered as a hyphen if it occurs within a name; it's just
part of the name.

> 5- ay ey oy ya ye yi yo yu
> Should they be permitted at all even in cmene?

Not sure. Possible example: ROynok. Valfendi allows this but vlatai does not.

> 6- yy
> Permitted in isolation, equivalent to a single y.

OK.

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