Re: Marking tones in conlangs

On 2/7/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Vietnamese as I recall uses a variety of diacritics, including dot-under;
> but some vowels require two IIRC.
Only one for tone, but some vowels also have a diacritic for quality,
which can then be combined with another diacritic for tone for a total
of up to two diacritice per vowel.

However, say, o and o-horn, or e and e-circumflex, are separate
phonemic vowels, and more an artefact of the limited number of vowel
letters in the Roman alphabet.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>