I thought I fucked myself over, including phonemic differences in vowel length, because falling and rising tones take quite some time for me to realise but then how do you differentiate between a short rising tone and a long rising tone?
But it turns out I accidentally covered my arse by adding two simple phonological constraints:
Short vowels with rising and falling tone are followed by a consonant
Long vowels are never followed by a consonant in their syllable
So you're always able to tell wether the vowel is long or not
I'm a fuckin genius tbh
@Qwyrdo I don't know enough about Cantonese (or any Chinese language tbh) to confirm but I mean, I didn't even think about it, I just put those constraints in there and only then did I notice that "short vowels VS long vowels + rising/falling tones" would be a problem, so I'm glad there's actual natural languages out there to back me up haha^^
I'd initially thought of making long vowels, like, extra fucking long so there's no way you'd mix two words, but it's just cumbersome