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--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@hidden.email> wrote: > St Augustine (354-430 AD) observed that Africans did > not > distinguish long and short vowels: 'Afrae aures de > correptione uocalium uel productione non iudicant' > ['African > ears cannot distinguish the shortening of vowels > from their > lengthening']. > > Which is good to know for those playing in the > African > arena. > > /Bendetx > And, thankfully, is exactly the choice I made in designing C-a. I used the Sardinian (and now I know HISTORICALLY North African) vowel system which simply obliterates length distinctions. Adam 11 Ed ingredjandu ad il bedi, videruns al credura simu al Maja, il seu marri; ad caderuns ed adoruns sivi, ed abriruns uls sustrus tesorus ed eviruns al jura, ul crisu djul Livanunu, ed murra. Machu 2:11