How would you define a regex for a word?
No, it wouldn't be [a-z]+, as that would get things such as "z", which I don't think is a word in any language (am I wrong?)
So... do all words in every language contain at least one vowel? I think it would be too simple if it were so, but I can't think of any example...
Any other rules?
Re:Words
cog on 2004-10-14T10:52:21
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
htoug on 2004-10-14T11:30:03
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
domm on 2004-10-14T13:19:14
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: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'.r, m, n, l
I guess this doesn't help with your problem, but it's an interesting factoid, IMO.
And probably it's all wrong, too, but IANAL (Linguist)
:)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
cog on 2004-10-14T12:42:30
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.
