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2009/12/13 Jörg Rhiemeier <[log in to unmask]> > Hallo! > > I once dabbled with an a priori auxlang with only nine phonemes > /p t k s l n a i u/ and a strict CV syllable structure thus > allowing for only 18 syllables. It never went anywhere, though. > Flafi ( http://wiki.frath.net/Flafi ) had only four(!) phonemes > /f l a i/, but it wouldn't fly either. More reasonable than > Flafi is X-1 ( http://wiki.frath.net/X-1 ) with /p t s k m n l > E i O u/, though with an insane (but actually quite rational) > orthography. > > When I stopped making Latin relexes (the first conlangs I made while being bored at school), the first conlang I created had only 4 vowel phonemes: /a i o u/ and 4 consonant phonemes /k f m s/, with a (C)V(C) syllable structure. For some inscrutable reason, I allowed [e] as an allophone for /i/ at the end of words, and [h:] as an allophone for /k.k/ (i.e. two /k/ across a syllable boundary). The language was quite well developed (I even wrote lessons to learn it) until I realised it was a big mess and totally unsuitable for its goal of global communication I set for it (yeah, it was supposed to be an auxlang. Be mild, I was young and didn't know better ;) ). My interest for auxlangs waned, and my interest for the artistic part of conlanging rose, so I abandoned the language and started devising something else entirely. -- Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets. http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/ http://www.christophoronomicon.nl/