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["Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!shoulson>]

Frank asks if any sequence of cmavo can be compounded without spaces
between.  The answer is yes.  Provided it's *only* cmavo and noting else,
and also provided that vowel-initial cmavo are marked with close-periods
(or come at the beginning of a compound) and that "y"-final cmavo (like
{ty}) have close-periods after (or come only at the end).  Given those
constraints, since all cmavo have at most one consonant and it comes at the
beginning, you can always place word-breaks before each consonant and
uniquely crack any cmavo-compound into its components.

Stylistically, some compounds are more common than others (e.g. {lenu} or
{la'edi'u}), but you can get away with any compound.

~mark