Re: vowel scheme for new language

* Kristian Jensen (kljensen@image.dk) [990523 09:56]:
/snip/
> The most unblanced system I have seen in a natlang comes from
> Marshalese from the Marshal islands (Micronesia). It looks like:
>
>      i
>         @
>         V
>         a
>
> This is soooo unbalanced, I'm amazed that the Marshalese don't mix
> the vowels up in their speech.
/snip/

How 'bout this 'un then?

     iy  } u
           e
              A

The -interesting- thing with such a system is what one have to do to make
non-native words fit. "George" for instance (the way John Cleese would have
said it, not "brawdly" :) ).

I tend to change [O]'s to [A]'s, for instance.

Btw, how -does- those of you with English as L1 pronounce latin/greek words?


tal., just done with several term-papers and currently "looking forward" to
the exams...