Re: My conlang Némalo

Quoting Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>:

> Stephen Mulraney wrote:
>
> >
> >> Ø: like Dutch/French EU, Danish Ø
> >>
> >
> > /2/ (the inventor of X-SAMPA was clearly running out of meaningful
> > characters by the time he got to /2/)
>
>
> Actually, it does make sense. /2/ is the secondary version of the second
> primary vowel. In addition, IIRC [2] is the vowel in Fr. _deux_ (and [9]
> in _neuf_ or whatever the word for 'nine' is). But I do not speak French
> so I couldn't say for certain. Now, [}] you can complain about. It has
> absolutely nothing going for it.
I might be seeing things(!), but I detect a faint visual affinity between '2'
and o-slash.

                                                      Andreas