Re: Futurese

I wrote:
>[snip]
>>Then, let's take the sound inventories of those most
>>spoken languages and see what they will find new in
>>the chart proposed:
>>
>>Chinese: will have to learn consonant r and to extend
>>the voicing contrast from their sh/r pair to the six
>>pairs of the IAL. Also to use ng initially.
>>
>>English: will have to learn all the vowels except the
>>schwa and to use ng and h in any position.
>
>Would you care to specify the exact prescriptionist values of the Futurese
>vowels? English (many varieties thereof, at leat) has sounds clsoe enough
>to
>each of the classical five vowels.
>
>The vowels in eg "pin", "bed", "far", "spot", "pull", in my RPoid
>pronunciation (I'm sure natives with different dialects can offer similar
>lists), are close enough to the classical five that I find it very hard to
>believe that speakers of a /i e a o u @/ language would recognize 'em
>(altho' of course they may think I've got a funny accent).
"... would not recognize ...", that was supposed to read.

                                                   Andreas

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