A conlang's vowel inventory has a big impact on the overall feel of the language. If you're aiming for a naturalistic language, don't just choose vowels at random. Look to the world's languages for inspiration.

In this video, I survey some of the most common vowel inventories in the world's languages. I show you how to use concepts such as vowel system symmetry, dispersion, and peripherality to make vowel systems that feel like they came from a natural language.

Things I mentioned:

My article on conlang vowel inventories: https://www.colingorrie.com/articles/...


This is a segment from live stream #4:
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