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Re: Brr (was: Re: A few questions about linguistics concerning my new project)

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 17:27
ROGER MILLS wrote:
> Kou wrote: > >> From: Michael Poxon <mike@...> >> >> > 3. Rather than expand the vowel system, it might be fun to restrict >> it. Just >> > have (say) a i u, as I believe some Inuit langs do. That may even >> give your >> > language a certain cold-climate feel, fine if that's what you're >> after but >> > not so fine if you're not! >> >> Doesn't Arabic, at least in theory, have an a-i-u system?
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> Yes. Also Tagalog and Bisayan, among others in the PI.
Also Kichwa (Quechua) over in Peru where I was earlier this year. It can get a bit nippy at hight in high Andes (and the very high Andes don't lose their snow!) - but not what one thinks of cold-climate feel, anymore than the Philippine Islands or Arabia. I'm not what feel, in itself, a three-vowel system actually does give a conlang. Surely it will depend upon what else goes along with it? Thinks: How does one give a language that Brr factor? Ray ================================== ray@carolandray.plus.com http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== Nid rhy hen neb i ddysgu. There's none too old to learn. [WELSH PROVERB]

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