Re: My conlang Némalo

Tristan Mc Leay wrote:

> 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.

I think you're right, and I think I've realised before that _deux_ was
[d2]. However, I thought it was just a coincidence. Obviously _neuf_
(yes) being [n9] didn't occur to me.

In any case, unless we propose the pronounciations [s7t] for _sept_ ,
and [s6] for _six_, I think there are still some awkward ones in there
(I think [1] is okay, being rather i-like. The same might br true of [6]
for turned-a).

> Now, [}] you can complain about. It has
> absolutely nothing going for it.
True, and it looks very odd in a string of X-SAMPA. [{] at least has the
visual impression of being a bit like the ae-digraph (sort of, kind of.
Okay, not really. To add to the confusion, it's a different vowel in
official X-SAMPA. Sigh).

s.
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