Re: vowel scheme for new language

On Wed, 19 May 1999 15:54:38 -0600 Ed Heil <edheil@...> writes:
>So it'd be something like:
>    i
>    e,u
>           a,o
>Where the rightmost vowel in each pair is the rounded counterpart of
>the leftmost?
>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>]

One of the two phrases displays all the vowels very well:

" pleknu gamna-zoh "
[ 'plEknu 'gamna zA<rnd> ]

Because of this spontaneious phonology, it ended up that i could
pronounce the rounded version of the low-back vowel two years before i
could pronounce the unrounded one.
"Pleknu Gamna-zoh" happens to be the name of the mysterious evil alien
race, or at least what they are called by the Earthlings (Humans and
Daemons ['dejmanz]), which means "Those who Fell from Stars".


-Stephen (Steg)
 _nyeng ta'marom-a uz, ga'eziizii-guvdhab "tawa uhzii-ghalub fa'amsh
  wa'marom-a i uhzii-datein ush fa'amsh, i uhzii-dathule~ ush wa'amsh,
  i amzii-waz ush.  i nyeng nga'dratz bahhihr-a uz..._

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