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Vakhtang Imnaishvili
Some Questions Linked with the Spelling of Double Vowels
Summary
The paper deals with the peculiarities linked with two or three adjacent identical
vowels in nouns and verbs. In words introduced from foreign languages double
vowels are mostly preserved, but they have no morphological function.When two
or three identical vowels are found adjacent to one another in Georgian words, each
vowel has its function and, according to the rule, none of them must be lost or
merged. However, in spite of this, there are cases in the literary language when this
rule is violated (daaxlova, saTvalebiT, SeerTebina, ubolo, mravalseriani,
urarteli...).
In contrast, there are also cases when unjustified, groundless doubling of vowels
occurs in words (garantiaaa, viRaceebi, uumaRlesi, sulelooo...). This must
have a psychological background.
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