Bivocalic¶
bivocalic · letter · validated
A text restricted to two of the vowels, the rest being excluded throughout.
Provenance¶
- Source: Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics (1968 onwards)
- Attribution:
reference— attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin - Checkability:
self— decidable from the text and its parameters alone - Attested:
codified— formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author
Details¶
- Kind: restrictive
- Languages: en
- Requires:
tokens,fold_diacritics,alphabet - Deterministic: yes
Prompt hint¶
Write a passage using only the vowels "a" and "e".
Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
fold_diacritics |
boolean | True |
Treat accented letters as their base letter, and ß as ss. |
vowels |
— | None |
The two permitted vowels. |
Examples¶
two-vowels-only¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
a bad tea seat
Parameters: vowels='ae'
Source: constructed example
a-third-vowel¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
a bad tea sit
Parameters: vowels='ae'
Source: constructed counterexample
two-umlaut-vowels-under-folding¶
de — this text satisfies the procedure.
Bähö
Parameters: vowels='äö'
Source: constructed example; the same seam as univocalic's umlaut case