Re: BAL - vowels

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Od: Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Do: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Data: 21 listopada 1998 23:24
Temat: Re: BAL - vowels


>On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, lucasso wrote:
>
>> first question before all, are we going to do it here on conlang group=
 or
>> should i send all on priv (if yes, then on whose?)
>
>We may as well do it here, unless someone objects?
>
><polish vowels>
>
>>
>>
>> there are also nasal: 'e' and 'o'
>
>Since these aren't in any of the others, these will prolly have to fall
>to the side.
right, even in polish their use is not wide, and are rather disapearing...
(of course maybe future polish invent more nasals :) )

>
>>
>> long vowels disapeared long ago...
>> (i have some problems with long vowels pronountiation)
>> polish is rather consonantal lang (in opposite to french for example)
>>
>
>Hmmm...no long vowels in Polish.  What should we do about this?  All the
>others have long vowels, except Pl.  And if difficulty with long vowels
>is common among native Polsih speakers, perhaps it might be best to
>abandon them as well?
>

i think it's quite common (my sister can't understand that ship and sheep=
,
aren't pronouced in the same way :) )

>With the addition of the Polish info, we have as common vowels (among
>Balto-Finnic, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish):
>
>a  E  i  o  u
>
>Common to all but Polish is /&/
>Common to all but Balto-Finnic is /e/, which BF has only long.
i think it isn't good way to choose only that ones that are in every
language
polish is consonantal lang
danish perhaps much more vowel lang

so we'll have not much vowels, and not much consonants, and what then???
i think we should make a compromise(?) then
maybe polish will learn long vowels, or front rounds?
etc..
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