Re: Schwa vowel, which letter?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 3:55 |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:47:03 -0700, charles <catty@...> wrote:
>I think I need to add the schwa vowel to the standard 5
>in my projected conlang. Which letter (grapheme?) would be
>best to use for it? I've considered X, Y (Lojban),
>or using W for /u/ and U for schwa, or "-", and worse ...
If available, you might consider a variant of e or o (perhaps a slashed =
o,
or e with dieresis). The number 3, which looks similar to the reverse
epsilon, is another possibility. But of the basic 26 Latin letters, "y" =
is
probably the best choice. I can't think of a language that uses "x" as a
vowel (although Cherokee uses a "v"), but "w" and "y" are both used in
Welsh, and many other languages use "y" as a vowel of some kind.