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Re: Kyrgyz was Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

From:Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 13:25
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:30 am, Roger Mills wrote:
> Peter Clark wrote: > > From what I can make of it, Kyrgyz has the following vowels: > > i y 1 u > > e 2 o > > E > > & > > a > > Just out of curiosity, is "& " for the low front unround vowel (æ, a-e > lig.) or the X-SAMPA low front _round_ vowel??
Sorry, it's ash. Probably should have made it clear that I was using C-SAMPA. ;>
> Does Kyrgyz have vowel harmony? In that case it closely resembles Turkish, > but with anomalous E &(whatever its quality):
According to this site (http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/profiles/profk05.htm), it does. However, it says that it has nine vowels (plus length), rather than the ten I counted in my Kyrgyz dictionary. However, looking at it again, I am guessing that either /e/ or /E/ are questionable: Ее [e] elf, [ie] yes Ээ [e] fed
> (Even better, Yitzik tell us that "y" should be not /1/ but /M/-- unrounded > high-back-- nice counterpart to /u/ in a harmony-system.)
Actually, Yitzik, if you are still reading this, were you refering to <russian>y</russian> or <roman>y</roman>? If you were refering to <russian>y</russian>, then I can easily see that being /M/. Or are you saying that it has both /M/ and /u/? Revised proposal: perhaps Kyrgyz has the following vowel system: i y 1 u e 2 o & a (A?) Well, as I mentioned to Yitzik in a private email, my Kyrgyz-speaking friend is coming in April, so I will be sure to pepper her with questions. Now accepting suggestions! :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!

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