Re: The beautifulest phonology

At 06:34 2002-03-22 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >As you might expect I rather prefer /i a u/ or even /i e a u/.  Any chance
> >you will have a reduced set of vowels in unstressed or final position?
>
>No - I don't find reduced vowels _beautiful_ at all.  They might, however,
>appear in a conlang where aesthetically pleasing phonology is not the
>(main) aim, e.g. BrSc   :)
I didn't say "a set of reduced vowels", but "a reduced set of vowels".
I too would e.g. prefer /i a u/ over /I @ U/!

And previously I wrote:
> >I agree -- to the point of almost introducing gemination in Kidjeb,
> >although it would work against the long
which sentence I for some reason didn't complete.  It should have been:

...the long standing tradition of Sohlob having non-initial voiceless stops
only after /s s\ x/.

Then of course final stops are unreleased voiceless, but they are written
as voiced. :-)



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