Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

On Saturday, December 25, 2004, at 11:43 , # 1 wrote:

> Adam F. wrote:
>
>> I am looking for opinions. Who finds vowel harmony in general to be
>> asthetically pleasing
I do     :)

Vowel harmony has figured prominently in my conlanging for a long time.

>> and what do you think of my sketch? I am working
>> on a
>> conlang that has vowel harmony as follows:
>>
>> i[1], e[@] are neutral
>>
>> í[i], é[e], á[a] are front vowels and can only be in words together or
>> with
>> the neutral vowels
>>
>> u[u], o[o], a[A] are back vowels and can only be in words together or
>> with
>> the neutral vowels
>
> It seems to be harmonic except the "a[A]" that is the only unrounded vowel
> of your back vowels,
It does not seem to bother the Finns - nor many other peoples in the 'real
world' whose languages have vowel harmony, with more or less the same back
vowels as Adam's.

Adam's sketch seems fine to me. It is similar to, tho not the same, as the
Finish system. I might have made the low front vowel [&] rather than [a]
to differentiate it better from [A] - but that is a small matter.

Ray
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