Re: vowel scheme for new language

Kristian Jensen wrote:
> The most unblanced system I have seen in a natlang comes from
> Marshalese from the Marshal islands (Micronesia). It looks like:
>
>      i
>         @
>         V
>         a
Well, I guess this just goes to show that for every rule, there exist
exceptions.  :-)  You'd think that it would change in some way to become
more balanced, say /@/ to /u/, making it a completely balanced

i     u

   V
   a

Quite an interesting system, tho.

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