Re: "Old Starrish"

Christoph Grandsire wrote:
> > Strange. Looks a bit like a semitic system, but
> with a serious twist. What
> > kind of "tone of voice" is conveyed by the vowels?
> Topicness?
> > Evidentiality?
to which Joe replied,
> I think he means that emotion is expressed by the
vowels.

I say:
Yes, that's basically what I meant.  I haven't figured
the details out yet, or which vowels would be
associated with which emotions or "flavours". It's a
bit of a daunting task right now, so I thought I'd
focus my attention first on figuring out the consonant
system, and then getting some vocabulary, and come
back to the vowels later.  All I really know
concretely about the vowel system is the inventory,
which is:

i I   y Y   u U
e E         o O
{             A

Rachel Klippenstein

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