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on 2/28/02 12:52 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rob Speer wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:47:51PM -0800, Mike Wright wrote: >>> <y> /O/ kly = Eng. <claw> >> >> I would find that extremely difficult to distinguish from 'o'. >> I'm assuming that the Txeqli 'o' is not rounded into 'ou' as the English >> 'o' is. > [...] > > /o/ and /O/ coexist in Hokkien, and they sound very different to me > ([o] and [O], no off-glide on the [o]). Ceqli o can be either, but I want it to be Italian/Esperanto o, not Russian o. I considered contrasting o and ow for awhile, but decided 5 vowel phonemes were enough. > >> I would also suggest that Txeqli's generally nice morphology should not >> be messed up with digraphs, or with single letters representing >> clusters. I agree, with the eternal exception of c, which we can consider an affricate, of course. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/