Re: Three vowel systems (was: Brr)
| From: | Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 2, 2007, 22:08 |
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T. A. McLeay wrote:
> Joseph Fatula wrote:
>
>> John Vertical wrote:
>>
>>> I've gotten the impression that 3-vowel conprotolangs are popular for some
>>> reason.
>>>
>> I'm not sure why that would be the case. The ancestral language to most
>> of the langs I've been working with over the past few years has a
>> 9-vowel system, plus length, making it 18. It tends to reduce down in
>> the descendants, though one of them subsequently brought it back up to 10.
>>
>> The 9-vowel system is /a i u O e o { I 1/. The later 10-vowel system is
>>
>
> Do I read you right in claiming a vowel system comprised of /i: i I: I
> 1: 1/? Is there an anadew for that?
>
It contains those sounds, yes. I'm not sure whether to call the last
vowel /1/ or /E/, it seems like it's somewhere in between those when I'm
pronouncing it. Is this a very strange system? It seems like Hungarian
has one about as complex.
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