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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:19:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        howardjp@well.com (James Howard), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: banner(6)
Message-ID:  <200104181719.KAA16548@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200104181422.f3IEM3w91400@gratis.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Apr 18, 2001 04:23:36 PM

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> > What other character pairs are there?  I flipped through a couple boo=
ks
> > and only found "fi".
>=20
> Out of my head: fi ffi fl ffl fj

gg gk gx gc ae oe oa ai ei oi ui yi hu a:i o: au eu iu ou ey iy
a:y o:y ie uo yo:

(consider o: as =F6, etc.; provided for those who don't have
ISO 8859-1 displays).

It's not limited to Latin/Slavic languages; Hebrew and Arabic
also have dipthongs:

	http://www.arbcol.macam98.ac.il/plurals.htm

So does Korean:

	http://www.chosun.ac.kr/~ongmi/teaching/phonology/pho3.htm

There are also mathematical notation dipthongs:

	http://www.mathnstuff.com/math/spoken/here/0front/pg10.htm
	(search for "dipthong").

So does Bangla (official language of Bangladesh, if you've
never heard of it).

And Greek -- I shouldn't forget Greek; many English dipthongs
are derived from the Greek.

Try an Altavista search for "dipthongs"...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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