Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

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.

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