Template:am-vmerge/documentation
This template is used when needing to combine two vowels in Amharic comform its rules of elision. It has three parameters:
|1=
The initial syllable|2=
The succeeding vowel|w=
(optional) Used to triggers the elisions [o-o > owo; o-a > owa; u-a > uwa] rather than [o-o > o; o-a > wa; u-a > wa])
Thus:
- The code
{{am-vmerge|ሃ|ኣ}}
(ha|a) yieldsሃ
(ha). - The code
{{am-vmerge|ሎ|ኦ}}
(lo|o) yieldsሎ
(lo). - The code
{{am-vmerge|ሎ|ኦ|w=1}}
(lo|o) yieldsሎዎ
(lowo)
When no elision can happen, no text is generated.