Talk:Trigraph (orthography)

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Contents 1 Diphthongs 2 Scr, Tch 3 Quadragraph 4 Tetragraphs?? 5 Swahili ng'

[edit] Diphthongs

It seems debatable if a diphthong is one sound. By IPA rules they are indicated by two symbols. So the mentioned trigraph "igh" is not a good example. It does not use three letters to represent one sound−Woodstone 18:07, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)

[edit] Scr, Tch

Is 'scratch' a trigraph? The 'scr' being the possible trigraph. What about the 'tch' at the end is that one too?

"Scr" is one sound but 3 phonemes, so I don't THINK that would work, but I'm no linguist. I do think the "tch" would work. Cameron Nedland

[edit] Quadragraph

If no one objects, I'm thinking about making a Quadragrph article.Cameron Nedland 02:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tetragraphs??

Digraphs and trigraphs are quite common, but do you know of any tetragraphs in any languages?? Georgia guy 01:24, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

In French there are lots of tetragraphs, caused by verb endings. In ils disent (they say) the ent is silent, forming a tretragraph sent representing [z]. In the past tense this becomes ils disaient where the pentagraph aient is pronounced [ɛ]. −Woodstone 10:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swahili ng'

Swahili ng' is considered a digraph or a trigraph? Why it isn't neither in digraph nor in trigraph articles? --81.38.182.40 (talk) 22:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)