Re: vowel scheme for new language

Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
 "I think that all right-thinking people in this country are
sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people
are fed up in this country with being sick and tired!"
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Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 1999 15:54:38 -0600 Ed Heil <edheil@...> writes:
 >In this case, "u" would be the orthography for a vowel something like
> >German "O-umlaut", and "o" would be a sound I'm not familiar with
> >exisitng in any natural language....
>
> >Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
>
> Well, this {o} might not exist in a natural language, but it's in my
> two-phrase barely-sketched-out conlang known only as "the Mother
> Language" which comes from a story i wrote in my sophomore year of
> highschool.  The vowels were:  [E u a A<rounded>]
>
I didn't mean to say I doubted it existed in a natural language; just that I
didn't happen to be familiar with it.  Doesn't seem at all unlikely that it
exists somewhere in the real world as well as in the Mother Language. :)

Ed