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Hi, You are taking the wrong approach in counting consonants and vowels. eg phone and fox both have one syllable, despite the double consonants 'ph'. Consider the sound, not the letters. the word "television", which has a similar consonant/vowel sequence, is divided as tele-vi-sion, that is...

I probably wasn't clear on that. What I meant to ask is how do you know how to divide a word into syllables if you're writing it down? For example in Italian, my language, if you're writing a word and you need to break it, there are very clear rules about it, so you don't usually have doubts. For...

I am not infatuated with the software that runs this site. Often I cannot post a message. I wrote a lengthy response to this, and then suddently everything disappeared. I think that this second writup will be shorter. Forbes wrote:Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to emphasise the...

Of course we need consult IPA, but some of their concept require some change. For instance, some times, it is very hard to denote a 'Phonetic pattern' in any letters. It is not syllable, not CV note. 'man' is a syllable, it is not a CV note or we may say, it is a series of CVC, yet it is one...