Re: backwards conlanging
| From: | daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 14:34 |
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Yoon Ha wrote:
> I have a stupid boring /i/ /e/ /a/ /o/ /u/ vowel system,
> with two diphthongs. I guess I'll have to figure out
> something more complicated that could've simplified down
> to the 5-vowel system.
Or why not the other way around? The protolang might have
had only /a/ /u/ /i/, and then /u/ and /i/ became [o] and
[e] in some contexts. Then, in the future, Chevraqis (or some
dialect) could develop front rounded vowels, or length
distinctions, or nasality, or... well you get the point.
daniel
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