Sunday, May 3, 2009

The alphabet of vowels expands

Lesser developed primates vocalize vowel sounds, and have limited consonantal modifying capabilities. Humans with lips and tongue manage a very broad range of vocalizations to add content to vowel tones, creating sound palette capable of matching any thing or any event presented to any of the senses.

Language capability is a limiting factor to growth in understanding one's environment and in one's ability to communicate one's understanding with another.

There have been thousands of languages created over the millennia. The English language has five vowels and twenty-one consonants. Other languages have more or less of each type of letter. The development of every tongue is a history of the needs of a people using the tongue to make pertinent distinctions and indications conducing to a common understanding and a common welfare.

The written form of the English alphabet is one in which vowels and consonants have been reduced to a sufficient functionality, issues of spelling notwithstanding. The old Norse alphabet had 46 elements, and the modern Russian has 33 elements. Chinese characters based upon concepts of things with tonal expression providing distinctive meaning required at least a knowledge of 3000 characters for modest expression.

The Arabic and Hebrew alphabets are consonantal with vowel sounds incorporated in consonantal expression.

The tonal character of Chinese tends to create a people with very superior sound pitch capabilities. The consonantal rigor of the Semitic scripts tends to leverage authoritative pronouncement and to discourage 'weak' expression. When I show a way of mapping the English alphabet to the human body, I'll illustrate what I mean by 'weak' expression.

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