Re: A Proposed Latin-1 vowel notation

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:15:45 +0200, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

>        FRONT   CENTR   BACK
>        -R  +R  -R  +R  -R  +R
>HIGH    i   y   ï   ü   û   u
>MIDHI   e   ø   î       õ   o
>MIDLOW  ë   ö   ê   ô   ã   å
>LOW     æ       ä       a   â
>
>It is assumed e.g. that ï ü can be used also for the vowels in English KIT
>and FOOT respectively.
>
>NB I'm not all happy with the unsystematic use of ^, but signs with ^ are
>generallly more back and/or lower.  Perhaps ë and ê should swap places?
I don't especially like ë for [E] either. Either ê or è would be
preferable. I've used ê for [E], but then some natlangs use ê and ô for [e]
and [o]. Another way to distinguish the high and low variants of "e" and
"o" sounds would be to use é and ó for the higher ones.

I'm fond of using ù and ò for the two higher back unrounded vowels. The
circumflex of â nicely suggests an inverted v, so I use that for the [V]
sound.

Compared with my Kolagian Orthography scheme (see below), I like your use
of ï and ü for the high central vowels, and using them as substitutes for
[I] and [U], at least for English, although I think there's a three-way
[i]/[I]/[1] contrast in some of my older languages. My system uses ø for
the barred o, an important sound in Olaetian, but yours is better for
languages like German because it avoids the Windows-specific letter œ (o-e
ligature).

í ü     ì ý     ù ú
î ï             û
é ö     è ø     ò ó

ê œ     ë õ     â ô
æ       à
ä ã             á å