Re: If you were to design a language, how many vowels and consonants would you use?
- From: "H.K. Kingston-Smith" <HKK-S@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:56:35 GMT
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:10:20 -0800, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Dec 6, 8:40 pm, "H.K. Kingston-Smith" <HK...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am talking about vowel and consonant sounds, and I am
assuming
that the purpose of the language is communication between people with
different native languages.
This is a question for conlangers ("constructed language" hobbyists). If
you wanted to know what the smallest and largest vowel and consonant
inventories in known languages of the world are, you could enquire here.
No, I am actually interested in the reasons that experts would
have to make their choices in this respect.
.
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