Re: [Ladekwa] Unhappy with Ladekwa as is

Would you consider adding a couple of extra basic vowels to the language? Say, the rounded German vowels ö and ü? Just something to increase the number of possible syllables in the language without increasing the number of diphthongs.

 

Geoff

 

On 14/10/05, Rick Morneau <ram@hidden.email> wrote:

MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote:
>
> Does this mean there would be no syllables with vowels "ea" or "oa"?
>

Yes.  (I never liked them anyway :-)

>
> > It turns out that about two-thirds of all modifiers and two-thirds of
> > all classifiers contain a semi-vowel, and the net result is lots of
> > tongue-twisting phrases and sentences.
>
> I wonder if some judicious re-arranging of the current classifiers/modifiers
> would help solve this.  You could put the more difficult or slightly longer
> syllables on the least used classifiers.
>

That's exactly what I did when I created the current morphemes.  The
only exceptions are words that are used frequently, such as "si", "to",
"sa", etc, even though their classifiers appear in only a few words.


Regards,

Rick Morneau
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram



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