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Does Shona have diphthongs?

Domaine:

natural language processing
Créateur:
Ale
Éditeur:
Cam
Hôte:
‘Investigation has shown’, writes Doke (1931: 31–2) ‘that at least two diphthongs and occur in certain Shona dialects.’ He does not report the nature of the investigation conducted. The present study suggests that there are no restrictions on vowel combinability, but that there are no grounds for postulating diphthongal unit phonemes in the language.

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