Re: CHAT: An introduction

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:42:03 -0500, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
wrote:

> From:    Ben Poplawski <thebassplayer@...>
>> My name is Ben Poplawski, a resident of Washington State in the USA.
>> I have two web-available conlangs at the moment that can be found here:
>> http://benpop.cgweb.us/lang/
>
> Welcome.  Question about Koba:  is /a/ really phonologically a front
> vowel?  If so, that would be rather marked, given there is no low back
> vowel counterpart.  (By no means impossible, however.)
It's not *that* marked, is it? A lot of languages have only one low vowel.
Many Romance languages spring immediately to mind, among what feels
instinctively like a fair number more.




Paul