Re: conlan/natlang coincidences
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 18:08 |
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:21:21AM -0400, John Leland wrote:
> John Leland here: this is almost exactly how I created Rihana-ye: I set up
> a series of monosyllabic basic words, and *all* subsequent vocabulary has
> been created by combining those words.
Sounds time-consuming. :)
> I should note that theoretically vowels in Rihana-ye only have one value
> apiece, though I believe if someone taped my speaking it, the evidence
> would be that I do not actually live up to that.
Well, I don't think any language is free of vowel variation; the fewer
phonemic vowels, the more allophones.
-Mark
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