Re: Origin of Estonian /7/

Quoting vehke <vaksje@...>:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:03:30PM -0500, Trebor Jung wrote:
> > Merhaba!
> >
> > Where does Estonian /7/ (o-tilde) come from? I mean, it's in a sea of
> > languages without it, and it's rare I think. Vietnamese (and Thai(?)) have
> > it, but they're not related to Estonian at all... So it's kind of
> puzzling.
> >
> > --Trebor
>
> Apparently it comes from either /e/ or /o/. Plausible enough, I'd say.
> I believe Votic (what's left of it, anyhow) and Ingrian are also guilty
> of having /7/. As do several Sámi languages (sadly can't be bothered to look
> them up). There, at least now Estonian feels a little bit more at home
> in the sea with some friends to play with!
>
> Now all we need is a true expert. (:
I guess that would be Ferenc Valoczy. Anyone know what happened to him?

                                             Andreas