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3rdchild · Alaa baruur le maahi badan le
I just found out this now why afsomali has such many homographs. Bastar latin script hiding my god given vowels
So what is meant by front and back vowels take the word dugsi and the word macalin they both have i in it. But the i in dugsi and the i in macalin are pronounced differently and you can see if you try to swap the sounds you end up with dugsueh and macaliyn which do not work. Its similar to what happens in english for example "jog" and "both" have different sounds for o because english has much more vowels than 5 but that isnt suprising given english stopped being phonetic many qarni ago. But my far latiin is supposed to be a phonetic language

For ease of understanding i have provide reference for the sounds because ipa alphabet is unintelligible chicken scratch:
They talking in the comments about how this shows vowel harmonisation in afsomali but i have no idea what that means because i havent gone too deep in the lingistics tunnel so any explanation is helped. Also haddi aan qaldamay qoritaanka codka erayada also fadal ii sax
In future if the somali orthography improves haddu ilaahi yidhaahdo there should be a way to implement these vowels and make it properly phonetic to account for these homographs that have arisen mainly for literary purposes. u/mahmud_ is probably still crying at night thinking about this
So what is meant by front and back vowels take the word dugsi and the word macalin they both have i in it. But the i in dugsi and the i in macalin are pronounced differently and you can see if you try to swap the sounds you end up with dugsueh and macaliyn which do not work. Its similar to what happens in english for example "jog" and "both" have different sounds for o because english has much more vowels than 5 but that isnt suprising given english stopped being phonetic many qarni ago. But my far latiin is supposed to be a phonetic language
For ease of understanding i have provide reference for the sounds because ipa alphabet is unintelligible chicken scratch:
XARAF | HORE | GADAAL |
---|---|---|
A | NAAG (woman) | BUURAN (fat adj.) |
E | EEG (look) | FEEDH (fist/punch) |
I | DIID (refuse) | MIIR (strain liquid) |
O | JOOG (stay) | ROOB (rain) |
U | NUUG (suckle) | BARUUR (fat noun) |
They talking in the comments about how this shows vowel harmonisation in afsomali but i have no idea what that means because i havent gone too deep in the lingistics tunnel so any explanation is helped. Also haddi aan qaldamay qoritaanka codka erayada also fadal ii sax
In future if the somali orthography improves haddu ilaahi yidhaahdo there should be a way to implement these vowels and make it properly phonetic to account for these homographs that have arisen mainly for literary purposes. u/mahmud_ is probably still crying at night thinking about this
