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Re: vowel scheme for new language

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Thursday, May 20, 1999, 6:32
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-)