Special signs

[John Sullivan]

Baert,
Using a double vowel to represent vowel length is not a good idea for Nahuatl because vowel elision varies from dialect to dialect. In Modern Huastecan Nahuatl, for example, repeated short vowels are very common. Here are some examples:
1. niitztoc, "I am (place or state)."
2. quiitta, "he/she sees him/her/it."
3. moohhui, "your road."
Here's a double long vowel.
a:a:chi:xqui, "he/she waited for their turn at the well after all."
John



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On Aug 1, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu> wrote:

> This practice is common for other languages that, in publications, 
> generally mark long vowels (and consonants!) with a raised dot.
> 
> Michael
> 
> Quoting John Schwaller <schwallr at potsdam.edu>:
> 
>> The convention which we use on this list, and in general in places
>> where diactitics don't appear properly, is to place a colon (:) after
>> the long vowel:
>> to:ca:itl
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/31/2010 6:16 PM, lahunik.62 at skynet.be wrote:
>>> 
>>> /Special signs./
>>> 
>>> /It is very annoying writing Nahuatl with a modern azerty keyboard./
>>> 
>>> /For example the word tocaitl, has a long --o- and a long --a-./
>>> 
>>> /Therefore a little marking line should be above the two vowels./
>>> 
>>> /Every time one must insert a special sign, working with Words./
>>> 
>>> /In fact this is a very old-fashioned rule if I may say./
>>> 
>>> /In the Dutch language we have a rule to write long vowels twice./
>>> 
>>> /For example: to go = gaan./
>>> 
>>> /Tocaitl should be than writing, toocaaitl, and one should no longer
>>> open special signs./
>>> 
>>> /I don't know if there exist special keyboards with those special signs./
>>> 
>>> /Or.../
>>> 
>>> /Cuix o-ni-n-ix-cuep? /
>>> 
>>> /Or... Cuix oo-ni-n-ix-cuep?/
>>> 
>>> /Lahun Ik 62 /
>>> 
>>> /Baert Georges/
>>> 
>>> /Flanders// Fields/
>>> 
>>> 
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