I've been frustrated by the fact that while ci, ca, cu refer to places, co and ce refer to things. That is, co means `what was just said' and ce means `what...
... In any case, if you decide to keep using it, you should list it among the consonants (or weaks?) in the phonology page. ... That might work well. A...
... snip ... it'll stay ... for plain ... least useful ... affricates ... My reasoning was thus: Among the large languages likely to deliver a lot of...
Why not distinguish between initial and non-initial consonants, calling them "initials" and "non-initials" for short? "Vowels" would then be your third group. ...
... OK, that makes some sense. It would not be a bad thing to talk about that some on the Ceqli site - maybe in an appendix or note at the end of the...
Hm. Just playing around with permissible initial clusters... As you said, Eo doesn't make a list anywhere that I know of, but there are what seem to be rules....
... There are implicit rules *now*, which can be deduced by a posteori analysis of the words actually used in Esperanto. The fact that there were no explicit...
Okay, I think I've got it. What I've been calling consonants will be cwaba (leaders) and non-consonants will be called faloba (followers). They are therefore...
Okay, I'm having doubts. Should I allow "Xy" as in xyen or xyu (and, implicitly also "Cy")? I fear they're among the harder combinations to pronounce, and...
... Certainly, but what you said before led me to realize that I was misusing terms by conflating the phonemic description of sounds with the functional ...
... Then maybe you should drop them. ... "chien", "rien", and "bien" are all monosyllabic, at least in the standard French dialect I learned in college. ... ...
... to preclude ... words, from ... have my doubts ... The dictionary agrees with you. I think I tend to make two syllables simply because thy /j/ tends to...
... That makes sense. ... Good. ... Probably a good idea. Maybe "ye" as well? It was the one that started this whole thread, after all. ... That looks pretty...
... That makes sense. ... Good. ... Probably a ... that started this whole ... Sort of. Xye, sye, cye, of course. But what about a word like byen? To me...
... "for an English speaker" is maybe the operative phrase here. ceqli should be easy to pronounce for a wider range of people than just speakers of English...
... You do. Part of the problem here is stress. Stress falls on the penultimate vowel if the morpheme ends in a vowel. If it doesn't end in a vowel, the...
Okay, getting wild here, imagine Ceqli without semivowel letters, and the i and u allowed to become semivowels in juxtapostion with other vowelsl We could...
... But what if you had a final or medial consonant? buan / bwan tuali / twali etc. ... OK, but in that case you need to make sure that no two words in the...
... bad idea; ... could ... BWA, and bua ... I completely agree. See my last post. ... survive and ... prefix po - pobon = ... think ... Hm. Yes and no. By...
Reworking of the alphabet. Reactions? http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.html -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Visit my website at: http://homepage.mac.com/rmay/ Great...
Oh, I did kick this alphabet rework around in my head quite a bit. Having standard diphthongs does solve the problem of too-similar pairs like bien and byen....
I think I've solved another problem. With the stress rules as they are, I've been frustrated that I can't borrow words like Himmel or Finger (German) without...
... OK, but you're complicating the phonotactics again. Some IALs allow speakers to insert an unstressed schwa where they have trouble with particular...
... The advantage of having distinct letters for the semivowels is that the learner doesn't have to memorize the set of diphthongs up front. With your new...
... I haven't really mentioned that, but yes, I expect schwa-buffering. Might as well, as it'll happen anyway. Another approach, which you all might like...
... Yes. That's why I used y and w for as long as I did, but I've decided that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. OTOH, it's not really that...
