Re: New Orthography for slaleg ekryn

Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:

> 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.)
Sounds like a kind of ablaut to me, if this process is regular.

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