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Re: Norreyna- YANC part I

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Saturday, November 4, 2000, 23:33
Carlos Thompson skrev:

> Some times I've been playing for marking roundness instead > of marking fronting in rounded frontal vowels, this way /9/ > would be {ê} and /y/ would be {î}: > i î u > e ê y o > a > In hand writting you could change {^} for a rounded version.
Cool idea! In the Germanic languages this would make no sense, though, since the front round vowels actually are a result of fronting and not rounding. Which everyone reading this thread of course know, but still... :-) But still it's a cool idea! You and orthography Carlos, you and orthography. daniel -- <> BEKÄMPA SPRÅKDÖDEN <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> SKAPA ETT SPRÅK <> Daniel Andreasson <>