Re: Uusisuom's influences

Daniel44 wrote:
>3. The phonology of Uusisuom is in some ways advantageous to many regions
>of
>the world. The 'a' is very common I believe throughout most of the world (I
>read somewhere that it is the most common sound in the world), as I also
>believe are the other vowels, with the exception of 'y'.
I won't deny that I've become rather confused by the discussion of Uusisuom
{y} and {u}, bit if I've got it right {y} is meant to be pronounced as IPA
[u], which is very common across the globe.

What might be a problem is that many people may have trouble telling
Uusisuom "y" and "u" apart. Personally, I've never found it really worth the
effort to differenciate the vowels in English "boot" and "took" - native
English-speakers don't seem to notice anyway. Then  I probably DO pronounce
the vowel in "took" a bit more laxly in casual speech nowadays, but I'd
probably need to make a phonogramme to be completely sure ... :-)

                                                    Andreas

>The main consonants
>t, l, m, n, are found over large sections of the linguistic world. Note as
>well that there are no accents or diacritical marks in Uusisuom (this is
>not
>the case in Esperanto) and that every word's stress is the same (on the
>first syllable).
We-ell, very few people should have a problem with those consonants,
especially if there's some leeway in actual pronunciation - eg both
aspirated and unaspirated "t" could be allowed.

                                                  Andreas
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