Re: Triple vowels (was: Generic base characters)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto Stolz" <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: "Kent Karlsson" <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:29
Subject: Triple vowels (was: Generic base characters)
> Hello,
>
> Kent Karlsson schrieb:
>> Having three same-vowels in a row is an "error" of sorts in the Latin 
>> script
>> (I would assume for all languages,  but I'm not entirely sure of 
>> that).
>
> Just for the record: There are perfectly legal German words with three 
> equal
> vowels in a row, e. g. “Seeelefant” [ʹzeːʔeleˌfant] (Mirounga 
> angustirostris,
> or Mirounga leonina). The reason: German features “compound words”, 
> and a
> word ending with a double-vowel may well be joined to a word starting 
> with
> a vowel.
>
> Even words with four equal vowels in a row are conceivable, though 
> very
> artificial, e. g., “Zoooologie” [ʹtsoːˌʔoʔoloˌgiːl] (Science of birds’ 
> eggs,
> as applied to zoos).
>
> However, § 45 of the official spelling rules
> <http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/regeln2006.pdf> allows to mark the 
> joint
> by a hyphen, as in “See-Elefant”, “Zoo-Oologie”, so you probably will 
> not
> see many of these triple, and quadruple, vowels, in the wild.
>
> Cheers,
>   Otto Stolz
>
>