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Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

From:Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 21:35
Kristian Jensen wrote:

> [....] > > > >Boreanesian, like its conlang predecessor Lumanesian, still has only > >four vowels: /a/ /i/ /u/ /@/. From what Raymond has posted, the > >vowel in Boreanesian's minor syllables would naturally have to be > >/@/, and that this vowel has several conditioned variants: voiced > >and voiceless [@],[I],[U], and zero. Raymond has also suggested that > >if this were the case, I should represent the vowel in the Roman > >orthography. > > > >But how should this be represented? >
I would suggest *o* when major is *u*, *e* when major is *i*, *a* when major is *a*, and nothing when mute because I believe you will end up pronouncing them like that. Mathias ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/conlang/?start=19092