Re: vowel scheme for new language

dunn patrick w wrote:

> Does this sound like a plausible vowel scheme?
>
> a -- low back
> e -- mid front
> i -- high front
> o -- round low back
> u -- round mid front
>
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....

I don't know much about vowel system typology and universals; it
looks pretty weird to me, but there's no law against that in
conlanging!


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