Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

Joseph Grandsire wrote:
>From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
>Subject: Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)
>
>
> > En réponse à Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>:
> >
> > >
> > > I've realized that I was thinking of /@\/ as just an allophonic
> > > realization
> > > of unstressed vowels...  But now that I'm thinking about it, that
>seems
> > > so
> > > dull and overdone.  Why not have the unrounded central vowel be a
>vowel
> > > in
> > > its own right?  Probably natlangs have already done this on the sly,
> > > without giving me a letter of notification.  ;)
> > >
> >
> > Hehe, stressed schwas do exist indeed. But I cannot give you an example
>at
>the
> > moment. More knowledgeable people than me have to step in here :) .
>John?
>:)))
>
>Well, I'm not John, but I know that /@/ is a regular vowel in several
>Central Asian languages, notably Kyrgyz, where it is spelled with a Y in
>transliterations.  So in the word "kyrgyz", there's a stressed schwa.
English has mid-centralish stressed vowels in words like "girl", unless
you're speaking a dialect that turns that into [gr\=l] or similar. My
dictionary gives BrE [g@:l] and AmE [g@rl].


                                                      Andreas

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