Re: Big Six Revisited... again :/

>From: Jim Grossmann <steven@...>
>Shouldn't "homophonous" read "homorganic?"
That's the word I was looking for, 'homoorganic'.

>Shouldn't "diphthongal" read "non-syllabic" or "on-glide"?
Close, it's an off-glide.  In other words, the second vowel in 'ai', 'au',
'ei'...

>Does your phonology permit consecutive syllabic vowels?
>For example, is the "ia" in "Ispania" pronounced as in "cafeteria" or like
>"ñ" as in "piñata"?
Either way is fine.  I'd prefer separating the vowels.  (See the post on
'kampiuteru')

>BTW, why is your language called "Big Six"?
This is the first version of my attempt at a 'global IAL' (similar to
Oskar's 'World Pidgin').  The base languages are the top six languages in
the world in number of speakers: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, Hindi,
Russian and Spanish.  (I get most of my data from the Lojban database;
Lojban is based on the same six languages.)

Daniel A. Wier  ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
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