Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

David Peterson wrote:
> But I know at least one person said that there was no [u] in Turkish,
> so you know what those universals are worth.
That was Japanese, actually.  Turkish *does* have /u/.  But it *is*
unusual to have /M/ without /u/.  Supposedly, /u/ became /M/ because it
was considered polite in the court to avoid lip-rounding.  (Tho, why
that didn't also affect /o/, I don't know)

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