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Sample vowel systems

adapted from a 20 May 1997 post by B.Philip.Jonsson

On Tue, 20 May 1997, Roger Espel Llima wrote:

Hey... do you guys know of any natural language where the 'y' is pronounced like an "u" (like the English "oo")? I'm thinking of adding that to my conlang but it sounds a bit contrived to me...

Came to think of it: if you want to expand beyond the 5-vowel system but still within the unadorned Latin alphabet one of these arrangements may suit you better (Nos. I-II and I-IV being identical apart from relative assignment of "y" and "u". No. I is similar to what actually is found in Swedish wrt to these two letters, while No. III is what is actually found in Welsh):

I
i	y		w
e	u		o
		a

II
i	u		w
e	y		o
		a

III
i		u	w
e		y	o
	a

IV
i		y	w
w		u	o
	a

V
y		w
i		u
e		o
	a

VI
i		w
e	y	u
a		o

VI
i	y	w
e		u
a		o

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Sample vowel systems

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III

IV

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