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All languages with vowel harmony that I know of, have at least more than 5 vowels (Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish).
I'm just guessing that your words would sound as if they were composed of similar syllables, thus hard to distinguish.

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I suppose that's always possible, but I I won't know until I start on the lexicon.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Ok, technically I'm not actively working on Iriex at the moment, but something has been annoying me for a while now; is there a better way to represent the uvular trill than <Q q>? I find it rather ugly and possibly grounds for confusion.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

All languages I know of just go with <R>.

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<ġ> is used in many transliterations, I think. Also <ł> for Armenian (/ʁ/ there comes from an earlier /ɫ/ I think), <ǧ> or <ğ> (Lakhota, I think, and several Turkic languages), or <g'> like Uzbek? In conlangs, I I've seen <ř> many times. And there's still <gh>.

I reckon that would lead to confusion with the alveolar trill. :/I'd rather avoid digraphs given their ambiguity, and inserting another accent for the purposes of one phone seems silly. Would <ł> possibly be confused for <l>?
A non-Roman character seems the way to go at any rate.

Thankyou guys.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Still not actively working on it, but I have added a plural/number system.
You might notice that the strange uvular lateral has vanished... yeah, working out the effects it had on neighbouring vowels was so hellish that I just dropped it.
I also took Maximillian's advice and added phonemic length, necessitating some changes to the allophony and mora system.
I'm also trying a new orthography; can everyone see all the characters I've chosen? I rather avoid digraphs and such, but it's no use having an unreadable orthography.
I'm not sure why the double acute in the example table has been rendered to the right of the letter though...

The words in these examples mean:
aox- child
a̋sma- flea, tick
caɍ- bird, bat
ɍär- cow, bull, calf (essentially any singular member of a bovid species regardless of gender or age)
urux- star
xaun- town, village
xi- two
Also, please note that I intend on the nominative case being marked but haven't yet decided how, so these will change at some point.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

I've added a partial update to the case system, only the dative, locative and ablative to go, and a few examples... I think I may just learn how to make PDFs because coding these tables is a nightmare (I also have the awful suspicion that it may be a wasted effort given the spacing may change for other people's browsers.)
I'm working on a passive/active voice distinction and a basic gender 'system', and I've also started on numerals, which will make Janko happy, no doubt.

Still not sure I like <g> for the uvular trill but it's better than <q> and means only one special character (especially useful since this site seems to like overriding my keyboard layout...)

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Warlpiri has three: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlpiri_l ... el_harmony

The first part of a large update.
The grammar is still in existance, it just won't be re-added until a little later.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Nar? Most word processors (including OpenOffice) can export to PDF...

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Hmmm, well unless I've missed something, it doesn't appear that Microsoft Word can, and Adobe wants a subscription to do it.
I'll look into OpenOffice.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Apropos of nothing, I've just noticed that the first four letters of my Roman orthography spell /äʃeɸ/...

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Well, that'll teach me to update this more often... Computer when tits up and I lost every shred of data I had.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

There's a quick update of what I had for the phonology, maybe I can also kick my ass into uploading what I had of the grammar before I forget it all.
Lexicon's mostly gone from my mind but I may just start that from scratch anyway.

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I had the idea of voicing intervocallic stops, or perhaps all such consonants, and changing the pitch accent to a stress accent as a part of a regional variation.

I'm wondering how the loss of the two different tones would manifest. Any examples?

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

my two cents...

it might do things like you've already got down - dà, dá, dâ, däbecomes dà, dhà, dà, dhá - or perhaps it would go from dà, dá, dâ, dä to dà, dà ji, dá, dá mi.
(or one remains a word, the other becomes a particle)

just a thought.

I am unsure what you mean here.

Should I maybe have mentioned that only the information in the first post is up to date? Other posts are for discussion or notifying updates; the actual info gets edited into the first post.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

(More) proof reading, a small change to the accent system and the very small section on grammar.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Another minor update, mostly to fix the charts.
There are some inconsistencies in the section regarding case marking as I'm currently tweaking it so that the result actually matches the plan...

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.