Hi,
I hope this last message to this issue will be posted. My previous message on Persian Math was not posted.
In my opinion, there is no "Vowel Diphthong" in Persian and that's why we compensate a mediator phoneme between two vowels to be salient as in /nanva-an/ -> /nanva y an/
The mediator pho
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 21:51 +0200, Jalal Maleki wrote:
> The two most common diphthongs in Persian are ey and ow like
> in Peyman, peyk, nowruz, Mowlavi, and so on.
Well, not every expert agrees that "ey" is a diphthong. It's a
controversial issue.
> I can put my question in a different way: does
--- Jalal Maleki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can put my question in a different way: does giâh
> have two
> syllables or just one?
Depends on who you ask. It is very common for
phonologists to accept [ja], as in siah, as a
diphthong, indicating that it has one syllable. It's
also common fo
