Re: oh no, not Tech phonology again

In a message dated 2/23/2000 12:39:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dawier@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< Stops/Affricates
 ----------------
             Voiceless         Voiced
             Plain Aspir Eject Plain Aspir Implo
 Labial      p     ph    p'    b     bh    b'
   Palatal   pj    phj   p'j   bj    bhj   b'j
   Labiovel  pw    phw   p'w   bw    bhw   b'w
 Dental      t     th    t'    d     dh    d'
   Palatal   tj    thj   t'j   dj    dhj   d'j
   Labiovel  tw    thw   t'w   dw    dhw   d'w
   ,,,snip etc. etc.
 Vowels are a bit simpler.  Though there are up to twelve vowel sounds:

 i  y  i- u
 e  o/ @  o
 ae oe a  A

 there might be as few as two vowel PHONEMES.>>

 This system exhibits what our friend Borges, in another context, called
"furor simétrico"....... It's nice. I played around with something similar,
tho less massive, and managed to have just 1 vowel, schwa /@/ -- after plain
C, > [a] or maybe just [@], after palatalized, > [i], after labialized > [u].
 With 2 vowels /@/ and /a/, you got more allophones:  /a/:/@/ contrast after
plain, /a/ > [AE] or [e] after palatals, [O] or [o] after labials.