Re: Esthetics

B. Garcia wrote:

>How do you all determine the esthetics of your conlangs? Do you have a
>formal system of rules governing combinations of vowels, consonants,
>dipthongs, etc. etc.? Or do you just go by "feel"?

I've designed a way for my vowels to sound well

I group my phonemes in three groups

a/a/a = |a|
I/I/i = |i|
U/U/u = |u|
e/E/E = |e|
o/O/O = |o|
2/@/@ = |y|

Usually, the vowels sound /a, I, U, e, o, 2/

In a diphtong, the phonemes will sound /a, I, U, E, O, @/

and when the word ends with a consonant the third will be used /a, i, u, E,
O, @/

so the word "he" is /he/

but the word "hem" is /hEm/


the word "ohi" is /ohI/

but the word "hai" is /hOI/


the word "tebnyte" is /tebn2te/

but the word "teibnyt" is /tEibn@t/

etc..


That's how I've made a kind of esthetic in the conlang I'm working on.

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