Re: THEORY: [CONLANG] The Language Code (take 4)

And Rosta scripsit:

> Even British English can be
> analysed as containing only 6 vowels, a e i o U V.
Indeed, a 20-vowel system can be captured with only 4 symbols and the
resulting 16 pairs, if you don't mind "the horridest arbitrariness
that ever was exercised in the world", as Cromwell said of the rule of
the Rump.

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