...Mawu
Also spelled ``Mau,'' or ``Mahou'' in French orthography.
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...II.
We are again disregarding tone here-the word for ``animal fat'' has high tone, while the word for ``sand'' has low tone.

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...consonant-glide-vowel.
A small number of Mawu words borrowed from Arabic begin with a vowel, such as / tex2html_wrap_inline1130 / ``God''. In most other cases, borrowed words that ought to begin with a vowel are borrowed as consonant-initial, such as / tex2html_wrap_inline1132 / ``automobile,'' / tex2html_wrap_inline1134 / ``Abraham.''
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...long,
Long syllables in Japanese contain two vowels, or a vowel and a syllable-final consonant.
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Mark Liberman
Fri Oct 3 14:10:16 EDT 1997