use Perl

• Words (Score:2)

  by rafael (2125)

  In French many single-syllable words can be elided before a wovel, so d', l', j', m', t' are valid words. t is a fake word used to adapt some ligatures (comment va t-il ?). y is an adverb of location (j'y vais), it counts as a semi-vowel.
  • Re:Words (Score:1)

    by cog (4665)

    Hmm... this is *very* useful information to what I'm doing :-) Thanks :-)
    
    Anyone else would like to say something about his/her own language? :-) Or any other, for that matter :-)
    • Vowels (Score:2)

      by htoug (771)

      There are several "words" that do not contain what is normally called a vowel.

      In english, y is not a vowel (I learnt that in school in Ireland, so I might be wrong), so the word rhythm does not contain a vowel.

      I had a jugoslav friend a long time ago, whose last name was Hrs, which he claimed was perfectly pronounceable (somewhat like 'hearse'), but I can't find any vowels there either.
      • Re:Vowels (Score:1)

        by domm (4030)

        We were spending our holiday on the island of "Krk" in Coratia.
        
        One of the things I remember from my ancient greek classes in school is that there is a family of consonants called something like "muta cum liquida" which can behave like vowls. I think they are:

        r, m, n, l

        You can say those consonats for a prolounged period of time ("mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm") just like a vowel ("aaaaaaaaaaaaaa"), which is something you cannot do with 'proper' consonants ("t-t-t-t-t-t-t"). Hence they are called 'con-sonants'.
        
        I gue
• Easy enough (Score:2)

  by Juerd (1796)

  use File::Slurp qw(read_file);
  my @words = read_file '/usr/share/dict/words';
  chomp @words;
  my $regex = join '|', map quotemeta, @words;
  $regex = qr/$regex/;

  :)
  • Re:Easy enough (Score:1)

    by cog (4665)

    OK, that was a good answer... what I forgot to say was: I don't know the language nor do I have a list of its words :-)
    
    I'm doing this for something like fifteen different languages.