Re: Tolkien & front rounded vowels (was: RE: [CONLANG] Fave Conlangs WAS: Silindion
| From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 19:34 |
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Hello,
>It seems to me that Tolkien used Finnish mainly for the grammar rather
than for the phonology.
A link to follow:
http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/finn_que.htm
Find there the answer... Which is 'neither', or 'a bit of this, a bit of
that' :-)
For myself, I find the front rounded diphthongs (just wrote 'diphthings'
lol :-)) _pleasing_ ;-)
--Pavel