Re: Japanese Long Consonants

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:31:32 +0000, Simon Richard Clarkstone
<s.r.clarkstone@...> wrote:

>Chris Bates wrote:
>> THat's what I was thinking, but to be honest I'm not sure I want to do
>> long vowels + glottal stops. My brain keeps trying to cut them off
>> early and make them short.
>
>That, of course provides a nice method for introducing realistic-seeming
>apparently-historical irregularities into your language.  Or, you could
>have a 3-way system (to what use, I don't know):
>* long vowel
>* short vowel
>* short vowel + glottal stop
I hypthesize that Chris' brain has rather a 2-way system:

* long (free) vowel
* short (checked) vowel + consonant (e.g. glottal stop)

This is essentially the English vowel system of stressed syllables (shared
by most of the modern Germanic languages, and by Italian, and I'm sure that
there are many more languages).

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust