I'm not complaining about orthography, but phonology: How easy it is to spell a word matters little if you get your mouth in a tangle trying to pronounce it. Es

I'm not complaining about orthography, but phonology: How easy it is to spell a word matters little if you get your mouth in a tangle trying to pronounce it. Esperanto has sounds most languages don't, and it has them purely because Zamenhof was accustomed to them. A good constructed auxiliary language would have a phonological inventory taken from the most common sounds in all of the world's languages. This page makes that case a lot better: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/i.html http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/i.html This is partly a consequence of Zamenhof being first, sure: Relatively little was known about global phoneme popularity in the 1800s. But he could have done a bit better than copying his specific dialect of Polish.