- ...Mawu
- Also
spelled ``Mau,'' or ``Mahou'' in French orthography.
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- ...II.
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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 / / ``God''. In most other cases, borrowed words
that ought to begin with a vowel are borrowed as consonant-initial,
such as / / ``automobile,'' / / ``Abraham.''
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- ...long,
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Long syllables in Japanese contain two vowels, or a vowel and
a syllable-final consonant.
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