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Re: More Sounds



> I think those are redundant, when i and u can make those sounds. 
And I 
> think I agree with Rex in that I prefer i and u over y and w.

I don't think they are redundant, because there's a
clearly audible different between a full vowel and
its glide. Would then a word like "pauio" supposed to
be pronounced as [pa.wi.o] or as [paw.jo]?


> > 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.
> 
> When I wrote 'consonants' I meant the non-weaks. But if H was not 
to be 
> schwa, it being a weak would be ok by me. Not that the consonants 
must be 
> in pairs---that just happens to be the case and I used it to 
isolate h.

But you can consider the h to be a "weak" consonant instead
of a fricative "strong" consonant. There are languages in
which they use a kind of h as kind of vowel. And in Lojban
it is considered the "weakest" of all consonants, that which
is less "obstrusive".


> Just to summarize, our systems differ in
> -letters for /tS/ and /dZ/ or not
> -use of h
> -y/w vs. i/u
> (-ny- sound or not)

Yes, but in your system, letter <w> is idiosyncratically
used for "zh" and <y> for "ny", unlike in any other alphabet
around the world. The use of "h" for the schwa is a bit
more justifiable, since I've already mentioned that an
"h" is sometimes considered a vowel; but why turning the
vowel letter <y> into a consonant and the consonant
letter <h> into a vowel? If one uses a sixth vowel, then
why not just using for it the sixth vowel letter of the
roman alphabet?

Cheers,
Javier