Introduction

There is a tendency in the Kong Langer community to hue toward more narrow standardized definitions of terms than among linguists. While I understand the interest in huing to the standard it is important to know that there is some flexibility and all sorts of descriptive terms and labels are used differently among different languages. We choose which symbol is the phoneme based on an analysis of how it behaves and on standard conventions of the field. With fewer vowels we'll have a wider margin of error. As an Arabic speaker's e-val may fall down in the region of English i or even a. In some cases the distinctions may be important but in many cases we don't bother with that sort of f