Uusisuom is no where near as complicated as Finnish. It is a genuinely easy
language to study, learn and use.
I think there is a HUGE difference between 'y' and 'u' and indeed between
the 'oo' in 'boot' and 'foot'. It's a question of pronouncing these words
correctly.
There is lee way in pronouncing letters like 't', it can be both aspirated
and unaspirated.
I agree that when a creator tries too hard to make their language 'neutral',
it ends up being bland and boring. Thus, I have strived to make Uusisuom
much more natural looking and sounding whilst also being simple and
appealing enough to serve as an international auxiliary language (or brother
tongue as I like to describe it!)
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Uusisuom's influences
> Daniel44 wrote:
> >3. The phonology of Uusisuom is in some ways advantageous to many regions
> >of
> >the world. The 'a' is very common I believe throughout most of the world
(I
> >read somewhere that it is the most common sound in the world), as I also
> >believe are the other vowels, with the exception of 'y'.
>
> I won't deny that I've become rather confused by the discussion of
Uusisuom
> {y} and {u}, bit if I've got it right {y} is meant to be pronounced as IPA
> [u], which is very common across the globe.
>
> What might be a problem is that many people may have trouble telling
> Uusisuom "y" and "u" apart. Personally, I've never found it really worth
the
> effort to differenciate the vowels in English "boot" and "took" - native
> English-speakers don't seem to notice anyway. Then I probably DO
pronounce
> the vowel in "took" a bit more laxly in casual speech nowadays, but I'd
> probably need to make a phonogramme to be completely sure ... :-)
>
> Andreas
>
> >The main consonants
> >t, l, m, n, are found over large sections of the linguistic world. Note
as
> >well that there are no accents or diacritical marks in Uusisuom (this is
> >not
> >the case in Esperanto) and that every word's stress is the same (on the
> >first syllable).
>
> We-ell, very few people should have a problem with those consonants,
> especially if there's some leeway in actual pronunciation - eg both
> aspirated and unaspirated "t" could be allowed.
>
> Andreas
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