Re: Betreft: Re: Critique sought
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 18, 1999, 19:26 |
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Rob Nierse wrote:
> I know of Sechelt having /e/, /a/, /o/, /@/.
> [i] and [u] are allophones of /@/
Again, it's not that these vowel systems don't occur.
It's just that they don't occur *commonly*.
> I'm a bit out of my depth here, but doesn't PIE have a two-vowel system with /E/
> and /O/? (or is it /e/ and /o/?)
That's one theory. Most theories reconstruct at
least three, for typological reasons like the above.
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