Re: A "minimalist" phonology...

Ray wrote:

>Another symmetrical four-vowel system is found in Apachean, Fox,
Shawnee &
>some other native languages of north & south America, namely:
>          Font     Back
>   high    /i/      /u/
>    low    /e/      /o/
That's like Turkish divided by two!

(FTR, Modern Anatolian Turkish has this vowel system:

i I | u" u
e a | o" o

)


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