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Controversial points in the morphology

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> > 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),

Nora argued that these may be hard to say or may degenerate into
other sounds after some consonants. We could make a list of consonants
after which they are allowed, or we could allow them after any consonant
with a recommendation somewhere that they should be avoided after
such and such consonants.

What about after apostrophe? Would you accept {bra'ia}, {bra'uu}?
{brii'ii}?

> uiski (whisky),
> UAcintyn (Washington),

Those two are totally kosher, as there is no reason to disallow
these diphthongs word-initially. I don't see any possible argument
against cmavo like {.ia'u}, {.iu'ai}, {.uu'u}, etc, either.

> niuIORK (New York).

How about the fu'ivla {niuiorka}? Or {cniuiorka} to leave aside
the five letter rule.

> > 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.

Would allow any string (of any length) of non-y vowels in fu'ivla
and cmene? This is what PEG does at this point, and the same
rule is applied to cmavo.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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