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Re: Conlang Development With Multple Noun Cases

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 30, 1998, 20:27
BP.Jonsson wrote:
> > At 22:56 on 25.12.1998, Arek Bellagio wrote:
> > Nominative Noun Ending: o, os > > Accusative: a, as > > Dative: e, es > > Genitive: i, is
> I have a problem with your vowel scheme, similar to the problem I have with > the Esperanto vowel scheme: Espo makes all nouns look masculine and all > adjectives look feminine.
So the "a" gets circumflexed, and the "o" gets umlauted; would that swap-gender them sufficiently? Also, the "i" looks too juvenile; better add a cedilla. To me, the "e" always looks as if it is laughing, so add a grave. That leaves tilde for "u".