Re: Romanized Orthography of My Conlang
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 17:08 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> It just occurred to me today: /e/ and /E/ are separate phonemes in
> French, or am I mistaken?
Just barely. There has been a systematic attempt to keep the -ais and
-ait endings pronounced /E/, but otherwise they are almost in complementary
distribution.
IIRC.
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Den er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
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