Re: Graavgaaln elements

>From: FFlores <fflores@...>
>Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> wrote:
>
>> There a few words I've created which just don't seem to be in
character
>> and, thus are on their way out of the lexicon (fchaagh, for instance,
>> which may end up as fu^chaagh).
>>
>
>How do you pronounce <u^>?
Sorry it's taken me so long to reply u^ is pronounced /@/.  The other
vowels with circumflex are also central.

i^ is barred i
e^ is "r-colored" @
u^ is @
a^ is a very low central vowel -- a lowered and centralized /a/

Also, the doubled vowels are not long versions of the vowels, but
different vowel qualities.

Adam Walker
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