Steg Belsky wrote:
>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>]
This vowel definitely exists. There is even a symbol for it in the
IPA. Mon-khmer languages have them. Some dialects of English too.
They are basically fairly common in languages with a quadrangular
vowel system. These are systems with the same number of front vowels
as back, and two low vowels.
-kristian- 8-)