Re: An aesthetic question

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:46:51 -0400 Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
writes:
> In my conlang Nrit, all the five cardinal vowels can be nasalized.
> Now, this is bad, because I cannot comfortably pronounce nasal high
> vowels;
> they seem to want to fall to lower adjacent vowels.  It's also been
> observed that nasals tend to be lower anyway.
> ---
> Good afternoon,
> Shreyas
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If you can't pronounce nasal /i/ and /u/, can you do nasal /E/ and /O/?
If yes, then you could have a lowering system whereby:

/i/ + /~/ = [e~]
/e/ + /~/ = [E~]
/a/ + /~/ = [a~]
/o/ + /~/ = [O~]
/u/ + /~/ = [o~]


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