Re: New Orthography for slaleg ekryn

Matt Trinsic sikyal:

> The vowels are a bit more complicated. There are only six of them, but
> they each have two phonemes. All noun words use one set of phonemes,
> while all verb words use the other set. Their <orthography> and /noun
> phonemes/ /vowel phonemes/ are:
> <u> /@`/ /3`/, <y> /i/ /e/, <i> /aI/ /V/, <o> /u/ /o/, <e> /I/ /E/,
> <a> /{/ /O/
I think I understand what you mean here, but this is not how I would
explain it. The statement "they each have two phonemes" makes no sense.
What you seem to be saying is that there is an alternation between the
vowel phones found in verbs and those found in derived nouns, e.g. we have
the noun [flIt] and the verb [flEt], but these are variations of the same
morphophonemic word /flIt/. (I'm choose a symbol at random, here.)

Do *all* verbs and nouns have this division. Can a verb *never* have the
phone [I]? If so, I know of no natlang that has such a system, but it's an
interestic analytical problem.


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