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> I believe there is wide consensus in IAL-land that /a e i o u/ is an > optimum inventory for vowels (universal acknowledgement is a gross > exaggeration of course). A lot of people mix /@/ up with other things, and Yes. Here in Brazil /@/ is an allophone of /a/. In Portugal, it is frequently allophone of /e/ or /i/. The default epenthetic vowel of Brazilian Portuguese is /i/ (or /I/, non-contrastingly). > this will probably be one of the most common segments in Xorban. It's fine > by me, though. I speak English too. Xorban scheme is beautiful, but I don't know if it would be easily-learnable enough to become an IAL. Though it may be very usable for enthusiast interested in synthetic, logical cognition and/or communication and for unambiguous computer-human communication (although it is also probable that computers will be able to understand ambiguity first).