Re: Unilang: some tentative words

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:52:38 -0400, Oskar Gudlaugsson
<hr_oskar@...> wrote:

>Pronouns:
>
>1p  /'iamai/    /me/
>2p  /'iatau/    /to/
>3p  /'iakain/   /ken/
Darn, the stress is supposed to be on the second syllable:

/ia'mai/
/ia'tau/
/ia'kain/

But I'm not really liking those forms; what about these:

/i'me/   /me/
/i'ta/   /ta/
/i'ko/   /ko/

I admit that I'm reverting /a i u/ as the unstressed vowel inventory, silly
as it is to change back and forth. Of course, whether it's /a i u/ or /a e
o/ is linguistically speaking trivial, given that the unstressed /i u/ are
meant to be pronounced lax and probably more open too; but it makes a big
difference in the way the words "look", which is a concern.

Óskar