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If you ignore German umlauts, you can end up with words that sound quite different. The same goes with the Māori macron, it can outright change the meaning of a
by eythian 4y ago
If you ignore German umlauts, you can end up with words that sound quite different. The same goes with the Māori macron, it can outright change the meaning of a word. If you can't type them easily, you can double the vowel (Maaori), which also makes the sound change more obvious.
- drewzero1 4y agoSimilarly in German, if you can't type an umlaut you can add an e after the affected vowel. (Äpfel -> Aepfel)
- Taniwha 4y agoYeah in Māori - kākā, kāka, kakā, and kaka are all different words
- sacrosancty 4y agoThat's what redundancy in language is for. You hear this kind of vowel and emphasis mistake all the time in non-native English speakers and we can mostly work out what they mean from context.