Zomp in the Elkaril grammar wrote:Though they cannot be written in our transcription (they can be in Elkar?l), vowels between u / ? / i can be used to indicate finer distinctions.
I checked the orthography section and i didnt see anything about in between vowels. Maybe I missed something, but would you care to elaborate?
Sure: just as the vowel can be continuously varied, so can the drawn expression. Basically, the sadder the expression, the backer the vowel; and the angrier the expression, the lower the vowel (for the extension to e and ?).
That's a very cool sound symbolism scheme. It makes an intuituve kind of sense (back vowels might be associated with sobs made in throat; and low vowels bring to mind a closed mouth and barred teeth).
