#for anyone curious a & ɑ are a vowel harmony pair which is part of why im not bothering to discuss that issue here | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gaydryad · 1 year ago

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stupid orthography ideas: use <ë> and <ä> for /ə/ and /ɐ/ respectively, where the double dot is essentially saying, "this vowel but the neutral tone one"

( and yes I know [ə] & [e] and [a] and [ɐ] are different heights. realistically it's probably more like /ə ~ ɘ/ for <ë> at the very least while /ɐ/ is just any open central-ish vowel. shh. its fine. I built this three-way a-ɐ-ɑ distinction and I'm NOT changing it even if it'll make the orthography easier. fuck you, me )

#from the writer's den #void talks #conlanging #for anyone curious a & ɑ are a vowel harmony pair which is part of why im not bothering to discuss that issue here #since Realistically it would probably either be clear from the other vowels or in-universe you'd just have to Remember it #and at least rn there arent any base pairs for a--ɑ #it's just harmonized bc harmony fun #anyway my only reticence toward this aside from the fact that I wanted to reserve any top diacritics for the macron for length #is that it makes this conlang seem even more finnish #and the tolkien fans are going to see codal ë and be like I know this one #without realizing nO #ITS A DIFFERENT VOWEL #ITS NOT e #but whateverrrrrrrr #the alternative was using an underdot which my keyboard doesn't let me input by default :(#and I want to move AWAY from using my unicode keyboard #bc it's annoying as fuck

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