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> > 1. Every word can be described by [(C)V(N)] *; > > 2. every word begins with C; > > 3. every word ends with CV; > > 4. every heard sequence CVC must be understood as a word break: -CV C-; > > 5. a vowel may be alternatively pronounced as a semivowel when it is > > in a cluster with other vowel. > > > I wanted to mention in passing that this is a beautifully simple. Yes. These rules impressed me with its simplicity. My original set of rules, that caused J. B. Rye to propose this one, was a little more complex because I wanted to create a language with (1) phonotactics no more complex than [(C)V(N)]; (2) guaranteed word-breaking detection; (3) guaranteed unambiguous syntax _if_ the writer/speaker wants it; (4) words' syntatic functions inferrable by morphology; (5) possibility of rhyming words of different syntatic functions; (6) no voicing, aspiration, etc. distinction among consonants; (7) no length, stress, tone, etc. distinction among vowels (you could also chose if you pronounce "u" as /u/ or /w/). In other to achieve that, I had to make more distinctions: V: any vowel, C: any consonant, U: close vowel [i,u], A: n open vowel [a,e,o], N: nasal stop. Some examples of allowed words would be CVNCV, CUACV, CAACV, CUANCV, [CV]NCV, ([CV])CAU, etc. Some verses in this language would look like this: huanti lei tionkai kontierai fau poesi pieki tei tienko hai kai tielei huesi tai nientu kiasoio tau lientu mai poio I don't know what this means since it's made of random words, but I guarantee the word-breaking detection, the inferrability of words' syntax functions and the rhyme between words of different syntax functions. Well, maybe I shouldn't bother with rhyming, but I imagined this conlang as having three contexts of usage: (1) auxlang; (2) artlang; (3) "loglang". It would still be a single language, but there would be constructions that you could be allowed to make in a context but not in another one.