Re: Question about vowel harmono

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> generally vowel-harmonic languages consider /i/ and /e/ to be neutral
> sounds, excet Turkish which has a counterart to /i/. Also most of them
> have counterarts for each vowel, if you have [a] [o] [u] you will have [&]
> [2] [y] as well...
/&/ is like the OE aesc, right?
What's /2/?


>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>
> > Is this a reasonable vowel system for a language with vowel harmony?
> >
> > Front vowels
> > /i/
> > /e/
> > /y/ (rounded /i/)
> >
> > Back vowels
> > /a/
> > /o/
> > /u/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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