Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 26, 2004, 11:31 |
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On 26 Dec 2004, at 9.25 pm, Joe wrote:
>> Adam F. wrote:
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>>> 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 :(
OTOH, I'm still thinking about getting rid of /&\(:)/; when I got back
to conlanging after semester, I'd even forgotten my original sketch had
retained it.
--
Tristan.
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