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It seems like there could be a lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes that such a system could be built on, with translations into symbol groups for differen
by stormbrew 11y ago
It seems like there could be a lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes that such a system could be built on, with translations into symbol groups for different languages. As long as those symbol groups are relatable by two people who speak the same language, that might be sufficient?
- avn2109 11y ago>> "lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes" They already spent a bunch of time and effort finding these phonemes to build Esperanto, right?
- stormbrew 11y agoThat would probably still be a very eurocentric set of phonemes, so probably would not really be suitable for the modern multilingual world, I would think.
- pgeorgi 11y agoEsperanto was designed to be partially understandable by people across Europe by lifting words from various languages liberally. Lojban is designed to be well-defined on phonemes, but that still only works when knowing its (rather simple) pronunciation rules.
- jodrellblank 11y agoNo, see this criticism of Esperanto phonemes: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/#b http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/#b Its choices are large, irregular, unclearly defined and basically Eastern Polish.
- maxerickson 11y agoOr just offer different sets of phonemes for different languages (and allow easy switching). You don't need any commonality across languages. Of course that's not helpful when two people who don't speak a common language are trying to establish communication, but it probably isn't their biggest problem.