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Re: More Sounds



> Here is my idea for the alphabet (using Rex's format):
> 
> Six vowels:
> 
> a as in fAt
> e as in bEd (or sAy?)
> i as in bEEt
> o as in tOE
> u as in fOOd
> h as in About
> 
> When adjacent to another vowel, "i" makes the Y sound /j/, and "u" 
makes 
> the
> W sound /w/.
> 
> I liked the accented/doubled vowels idea at first, but I don't 
think Ceqli 
> needs to use so many. As Javier said, the six of Lojban, (if I 
remember 
> them correctly). His nasal schwa idea sounds interesting as well, 
but does 
> it work with -ng/-ny-?

I took the idea from listening to Cherokee. And of course
it works with -ng/-ny- as well as it works with any
other nasal consonant; the nasality of the vowel and the
nasality of the consonant are independent, in the same
manner as the voicing of the vowel doesn't interfere with
the voicelessness of p, t or k. Nasalization of the
adjacent vowels to a nasal consonant is just a local habit
of some American English pronounciations, not a general,
universal phonetic rule.


> Consonants:
> 
> b as in Boy
> c as in Chew
> d as in Dog
> f as in Free
> g as in Go
> j as in Joe
> k as in King
> p as in Pig
> s as in See
> t as in Too
> v as in Victory
> w as in meaSure
> x as in SHoe
> z as in Zoo
> 
> Weaks:
> 
> l as in Love
> m as in My
> n as in No
> r as in Rose
> q as in haNG
> y as in caNYon
> 
> I originally removed H because it was the only consonant that 
didn't form 
> a voiced/unvoiced pair. If wanted, Y could be instead used for 
schwa, but 
> that would mean no letter for '-ny-'. Ñ (n-tilde) could be used, 
but I 
> don't like the aesthetic of the letter, personally.

Prsonally, I prefer "ñ" to the digraph "ny", because
in Spanish there's a difference between the palatal
nasal ñ and a nasal followed by the semivowel y (n+y).
The final syllables in "España" and "escaño" don't sound
like the final ones in "Hispania" and "geranio".


Why not just using <y> for the schwa, <j> for /j/,
<w> for /w/ and <h> for /h/, leaving aside the palatal
nasal and reducing the set ch/sh/dj/zh to just sh/zh or
ch/dj?

And regarding the voicing of "h", that's not the
only consonant not to have a pair: none of the weaks
has it either. So, just make "h" be one of them.


> This system I think seems less 'forced' than Rex's. Only W for zh 
and H 
> for schwa are a little odd, but the rest work well. Also, Ceqli 
stays 
> Ceqli.

And why not the one I've proposed, which is much less
forced than both yours and Rex's:

Vowels
i /i/
e /e/ or /E/ --or better the middle sound between both
a /a/
o /o/ or /O/ --idem  (as in Spanish)
u /u/
y /@/ or /@~/

Consonants
p /p/
b /b/
f /f/
v /v/
t /t/
d /d/
s /s/
z /z/
c /S/ or /tS/
x /Z/ or /dZ/
k /k/
g /g/

Weaks
m /m/
n /n/
q /N/
l /l/
r /r/
w /w/
j /j/
h /h/

Hope it may help.

Best regards,
Javier