Long vowel notation

[David Wright]

Estimado John:
 
Thanks for your input. I have one doubt:
 
Does the lack of vowel ellision in your examples produce a result that
sounds different from long vowels, perhaps a syllable boundary between the
two like vowels, distinguished by stress? I suppose this would be harder to
hear in the last example.
 
Saludos,
 
David
 
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Listeros,
The use of the double vowel to represent length can be confusing for
variants that tend not to eliminate one of two vowels that come together at
a morpheme boundary. In Huastecan Nahuatl we have, for example, niitztoc
(ni-itztoc), "I am [estar]"; quiittah " (qui-ittah), "they see him-her-it";
mooholinia (mo-oholinia), "it moves".
John
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