SOUNDS OF THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

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Hiatus

This section is a translation of a section presenting the Romanian hiatus from Toma Ion, Limba română, Ed. Niculescu, Bucureşti, 1994.

"A hiatus is the joining of two vowels belonging to separate syllables. It is rather difficult tolerated by the Romanian utterance and therefore it has been progressively substituted by either a diphthong or a simple vowel, surviving only in compound words and neologisms. The various vowel combinations in a hiatus are presented below:

I. Vowels of the same kind:
a-a: supraaglomerat, ultraatent
e-e: neelucidat, reevaluat, idee
i-i: ştiinţă, fiică, antiinflaţie
o-o: alcool, cooperare, zoologie
u-u: reziduuri

II. Different vowels:
Middle - front
a-i: înainte
a-e: aer
ă-i: trăind
î-i: bâjbîind

Middle - back
a-o: surpaorganizare
a-u: aur
ă-u: răul
î-u: pârâul

Front - middle
i-a: (a) speria
e-a: real
e-î: neînceput

Back - middle
o-a: coarticula
u-a: actual

Front - back
i-o: biologie
e-o: arheolog
i-u: triunghi
e-u: neutru

Front - front
i-e: sanie
e-i: neisprăvit

Back - front
o-i: voinţă
o-e: poet
u-i: (a) îngăgui

Back - back
o-u: biroul
u-o: respectuos

III. Chain hiatus
i-a-e: antiaerobic
i-e-u: arhieuforic
o-e-u: indoeuropean
o-a-u: coautor
e-o-a-u: neoautocrat
e-o-e-u: neoeugenie

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