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Re: Montreiano Orthography

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Monday, October 23, 2000, 16:54
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:27:34 -0700, Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
wrote:

>>>Accents: generally, for the long vowels, è, and ò, the stress usually >>>falls on them (because of their length). >> >>Only two long vowels? With a natlang I'd check if they are actually >>diphthongs (some /e@/, /o@/). >> >Well, i was trying to come up with a solution that wasnt like the other >romance langs. Christophe suggested i could turn /E/ and /O/ to /e:/ and >/o:/. So, would they instead really be the diphthongs you suggested?
My point was that a system with five short vowels and only two long ones doesn't look especially natural - while I'm sure a natlang precedent can be found for that, too... ;) This is why I suggested diphthongs (without changing the orthography). I seem to remember that é and ó appear where Spanish has <ie>, <ue>. In Spanish (unlike some other Romance langs) this seems not to be connected (historically) with vowel lengthening.
>(i >notice when i attempt to pronounce /e:/ it starts to come out as /ej/. >(this is starting to veer towards a more "natural" Con Romance Lang)
I am not sure if you'll like /abejrto/ = abierto. That's why I thought of centering diphthongs - they easily combine with various clusters. Basilius