Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

Tristan McLeay wrote:

> On 26 Dec 2004, at 9.25 pm, Joe wrote:
>
>>> Adam F. wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am looking for opinions. Who finds vowel harmony in general to be
>>>> asthetically pleasing and what do you think of my sketch?
>>>
>
> I've never done a conlang with vowel harmony. 'M not too sure I like
> it...
>
>> Indeed.  I'd add a rounded front group and an  unrounded back group:
>>
>> Rounded front:
>> ü[y], ö[2], (å with umlaut, perhaps?)[&\]
>
>
> My nifty currently-being-worked-on conlang Old Føtisk uses ø for /2/
> and ö for
> /&\/ (it also uses oe ligature for /2:/, but /&\:/ is spelt ö and
> differentiated by following consonants). My other nifty
> currently-being-worked-on conlang Ancient Føtisk used oi(e) for /2(:)/,
> oe for /&\/ and oia for /&\:/, but I imagine you don't like polygraphs
> as much as you should :(

Well, I do like them in a posteriori languages.  They're nice and
naturalistic.  In an a priori language, though, where you're working on
the basis of what is probably and alien script (or no script at all),
I'm a fan of efficiency.

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