Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language

En réponse à Andrew Nowicki :
>Joe Fatula wrote:
>
>JF> Initial Consonant:
>JF> p t k m n f s h ch w l y
>
>JF> Vowel
>JF> a e i o u ai ao eo
>
>JF> Final
>JF> none m n ng s l
>
>Example: yos-son-ni sounds like yo-so-ni.
To your ear maybe. But not to mine nor to the ear of most people in the
world. It's easy to make a double fricative sound different from a single
one. Nearly everybody can hear the difference, even those who don't have
geminates in their L1 (I know French people don't have any problem with
that, and we don't have *any* geminate in our language).


>Why so few vowel combinations?
Joe already explained that it was for maximum recognability while using
only the main cardinal vowels. ae sounds often like ai, au and eu like ao
and eo, ei like e (especially for English speakers), and any diphtongue
beginning with i or u would easily be confused with syllables beginning
with y or w (French people would confuse them easily). The only addition I
think he could do would be oi, which to me sounds different enough from
everything else. And if he writes ao and eo as au and eu, and oi as oe, he
would get the exact diphtongues Classical Latin had ;))) .


Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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