Vowel inventory (was Re: What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?)

--- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:57:39PM -0800, Gary Shannon wrote:
> [...]
> > The plain vanilla Roman alphabet works fine for me, although I also
> > like using the Shavian alphabet since I'm very fluent in it.
> [...]
>
> I, OTOH, would love to use the Cyrillic alphabet for my next conlang (if
> I ever get around to it), if only to somewhat mitigate the poverty of
> vowels in the Roman/Latin alphabet. Tatari Faran was OK with
> Romanization because of its simple phonetic inventory, but I had lots of
> trouble fitting Ebisedian's vowel system because it had 9 vowels plus
> length & nasalization. Pity I didn't know the Cyrillic alphabet back
> then.
>
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> T
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> --
> If you compete with slaves, you become a slave. -- Norbert Wiener
>
I have a strong tendency in all my conlangs to use the five vowels in
"Mogadishu day", and call it good enough.

--gary