Re: Three vowel systems (was: Brr)
| From: | Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 20:04 |
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John Vertical wrote:
> I've gotten the impression that 3-vowel conprotolangs are popular for some
> reason.
I'm not sure why that would be the case. The ancestral language to most
of the langs I've been working with over the past few years has a
9-vowel system, plus length, making it 18. It tends to reduce down in
the descendants, though one of them subsequently brought it back up to 10.
The 9-vowel system is /a i u O e o { I 1/. The later 10-vowel system is
/6 a: E e: I i: O o: U u:/.
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