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Hiatus

The hiatus, (Latin "hiatus", opening) in phonetics is a linguistic phenomenon that is formed by dividing two vowels (or rather, vocoids) into two syllables, which otherwise would belong to the same syllable.

In the Unified Sicilian Language there are in fact four types of hiatuses, which are placed into two groups. Notice however that some of these combinations do not exist in the Unified Sicilian Language, and I've included them for your information only.

The first group consists of the vowel combinations that receive the accent either on the first vowel or on neither of the vowels.

The second group consists of the vowel combinations that receive the accent on the second vowel.