Brr (was: Re: A few questions about linguistics concerning my new project)
| From: | Douglas Koller <laokou@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 18:10 |
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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? While I've heard it can get
pretty nippy on those desert nights and you might want to bring a cardigan to a
mountain top, I don't think of Arabic having a cold-climate feel :-)
Kou
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