Colorbet for IPA vowels & Spanish Examples

This chart lists all the possible vowel sounds in all the languages of the world taken from the expanded canIPA, which goes beyond the traditional IPA vowel list.

Attacking the whole list head, on I created three rainbow wheels going around from the outside to the inside in three loops around and into the chart always starting at point 4 on the bottom, and then ending at point 6 or 5 also also on the bottom (an extra column of sky blues separates the rainbows at the end and covers undiscovered vowel sounds).

The basis of this chart was the assumption that RED is fundamentally linked to the cardinal "Ah" sound, GREEN is linked to the "ee" sound, and BLUE is linked to the "oo" sound. In Vitaly Vetash's Colorbet, he links BLUE to "ee" and GREEN to "oo" but that is merely based on the sounds in the words for those colors in the Russian language and the tendency of Russians to make those associations.

However, it is better to follow the English color words that link to the "oo" and "ee" sounds because of the added associative value connecting the "oo" to blowing wind sounds which evokes the color blue, and the "ee" to eating an chewing which evokes "green" things we eat.

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