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.

>
> 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?

> do everybody use sampa?
>
For the most pasrt, yes.

> who are in BAL group, are there any list?
>
At present, there is you (Lucasso),
Kristian Jensen,
and myself.

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.

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