Re: SV: Re: Some conlang questions

I'm reading that page now. I saw a few errors: Japanese /u/ is unrounded,
and Arabic has long-short length contrast, so it really has six vowels.
Farsi also has a similar six-vowel system as Chamorro and Old English (but
replace /a/ with /Q/).

From: "Michael Fors" <micke@...>

> Hello everybody!
>
> I just had to thank you all for your helpful answers. I almost expected
having to wait a day or two for answers, instead I get them directly. =)
> I've checked out http://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/lang/vowels.html , a very
fine site indeed. I'm just a little irritated that HTML doesn't support IPA
letters apparently.
> I was a little amused to see that Swedish has, by some counts, 23 distinct
vowels. That's quite a collection. =)