Vowels [closed]

Since I speak Spanish, I am in favor of diphthongs and triphthongs, and somewhat against hiatuses. I also find myself tempted by the 5-vowel system, but that would be the easy way, hence boring. Therefore, I might opt for a system of 8 cardinal vowels, counting the English R as the 9th, so that the language would be a bit cursed.

Update 1:

we can write this like:

a, e, i, o, u, y, h, r, w

Update2:

Probably this is iunfeasible

i propose we have like 3 vowels but then 5 or something tonemes

so maybe like:

a:[a˧, a˥, a˩, a˧˥ a˧˩]

e:[e˧, e˥, e˩, e˧˥ e˧˩]

o:[o˧, o˥, o˩, o˧˥ o˩]

but idk if thats too unpronounceable, ive only ever made one tonal conlang so im not really sure

I think it would be too complicated, maybe we could have more vowels and 2 tones.

Nine vowels seemed appropriate to me to make the conjugations simple, or perhaps make the directions associate with a particular vowel, with 'r' associated with the center.

The tones are complicated, of course, with 2 tones, I think I could at least try to pronounce it. 9 vowels I think are simpler. Also, we have to consider that we have to romanize everything. I forgot to mention that aspect. I’m going to update the post.

New idea after Update 2:

6 vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and English r, but written like y

2 tones, and short and long variants: á is short low, à is short high, ä is long low and â is long high.

In Ipa: a, e, i, o, u, ɹ

ok i get it, thats a bit too many tones

I accept your idea, but can we just switch the short low and short high marks cuz the acute is usually used for high tones?

something like this?

à is short low, á is short high, ä is long low and â is long high.

yess exactly :]