This is the ideal set of vowels that all languages should aspire to emulate. Distinct, well balanced, and minimalist

This is the ideal set of vowels that all languages should aspire to emulate. Distinct, well balanced, and minimalist.
Anything else, and you are bound to degenerate into a cesspool of schwas.

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the only vowels I want to hear from danes is oooh and aaah as I anally rape them

>a cesspool of schwas
kek

Schwas are based tho. Ashes are the cringe ones. I agree that too many barely distinct vowels make for a shitty language to learn

based

where is y

>schwas

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Our Y sound is not super common in languages

ona li pona tawa mi

Fuck defined vowels. Everything should be consonants and maybe some schwas. Then you can use different vowel sounds for flair purposes.

>t. Arab

So instead of a word like "Hello" your greeting could be something like "K'b'n"
And if you see someone on the street when you're walking by and don't really want to talk to them but only briefly acknowledge each other, your exchange would be like
>kbn
>kbn
Both said very quickly.

But if you're running into someone at a social event and you secretly hate each other but have to interact performatively, your interaction would be like
>kaaaaabenn
>kiboooooon

Or whatever

Any languages that fit that vowel criteria other than Spanish, Greek and Japanese?

Japanese and Greek don't fit that criteria tho

Esperanto.

Why doesn't Japanese fit it? Those are their five vowels.

Greek definitely does, just slightly less pronounced. Japan's U is a bit off, but otherwise still a good approximant.

Greek has /ɛ/, /ɔ/, and /y/ as well as a bunch of diphthongs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek
Japanese is close true, but it's still not the same as in the OP

That's the case with SerboCroatian
Also we're practically the only phonemic language

Japanese is close enough, just a rounding error. You can still tell the vowels apart easily.

>This is the ideal set of vowels that all languages should aspire to emulate. Distinct, well balanced, and minimalist.
>Anything else, and you are bound to degenerate into a cesspool of schwas.
I know this is what happened to Danish but just look at the rest of us and you'll see that our vowels are doing fine. I have no idea wtf happened to the speech of you guys, but it does sadden me.

Also a, e, i, o, u are all words as well in our language

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a and o are too similar sometimes. One of them should be dropped.

Diphthongs are not vowels in and of themselves.
As for those, pretty much identical to Spanish by the standard of their ears.

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Not acknowledging the existence of [ɯ̥] and [i̥] is like not acknowledging that a large number of vowels in English are actually all schwas.

>No /ɛ/
>No /ɔ/

I guess if you're going by "close enough" then sure, but that's a slippery slope that you could fit half of the world's languages under

This is better.

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As long as they're all in their own section, sufficiently far apart, and only one in the bottom two sections, I'm happy.

I'd say this is based but only because I can't hear the difference between [ei]/[e] and [o]/[o̞]/[ou].