Letter r as a vowel

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I propose we make the letter r a vowel. Consequently we would also have the rhotic dipthongs:

ar  er  ir  or  ur
ra  re  ri  ro  ru

This might seem like an unacceptable sacrifice of r as a more useful constant, being restricted in the same way that u and i are restricted in their use as constants, but I think there are ways to free the language of all these restrictions (e.g. #5 and #7). If we can do that, then it makes sense to allow r to also be a vowel.

[thetommoore]

It'd probably be worth having a table of the consonants and vowels somewhere, as I'm not sure how much of a difference changing a consonant to a vowel would make from a numerical perspective.

This proposal also clashes significantly with the proposal on the wiki to use rafsi as the fundamental roots.

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This proposal also clashes significantly with the proposal on the wiki to use rafsi as the fundamental roots.

Wow. You've been reading that stuff!? Keep in mind that's all very exploratory at this point. Nothing solid.