Re: conlan/natlang coincidences

Quoting Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>:

> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> > {eo} /O/
> > > Thus e.g. Seoul /sOul/.
>
> I thought Korean {eo} was /7/, rather than /O/. Is
> this perhaps dialectal, or a recent soundchange? Or
> am I just plain wrong? :)
>
> "Seoul" in Swedish is /s2Ul/ (or thereabouts).
The variant spelling _Söul_, I very much hope, suggests you're not plain
wrong. Or might it be might that that's not an umlaut but a diaeresis telling
us that is is /so.ul/?

Back when the Latin alphabet was first used to write non-Latin languages, they
should've started connocting new signs instead of plaguing us with all these
digraphs and diacritics ...

                                                                Andreas

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