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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Gregory H. Bontrager" <GregBont@e...> wrote: > â English "a" as in "cat" > g before `e' or `i', as in > English "gentle"; > î as in English "will" > j as in English > û as in English "but" > th as in English Just as it may be implausible for Merkans to learn to conjugate out of free will, I can't see the Hispanophones adopt these very English sounds. Spanish accent is mostly characterized by the mispronunciation of exactly those sounds. I'd propose to map â onto a, j onto ch, î onto i, û onto o or a and th onto t, s or f. I've always found the attachedness of English-native conlangers to /I/ and /V/ rather strange. You see them in exceedingly many "first langs" by Merkans, even if the rest of the vowel system is rather spartan. -- Christian Thalmann