Re: Monophthongs in IPA

George,

Thank you, this is now clear.

Best wishes,
Dhammanando

> Sorry for the obscurity.  The point is: many languages have vowel
> systems with [a, i, u] but not [inverted v, I, upsilon].  Few (if any)
> have vowel systems with the vowels [inverted v, I, upsilon], but not
> [a, i, u].  Thus the 'short' vowels are marked with respect to the
> 'long' vowels.  Meaning that if you have marked vowels, you expect to
> have the corresponding unmarked vowels also.