Re: a few questions

Trebor Jung scripsit:

> How did Estonian lose vowel harmony? And how does vowel harmony appear
> in a language at all?
Here's another question: is there any living language in which
vowol harmono is actually still operating?  In Turkish and Finnish, at
least, borrowings routinely violate it.

> Doesn't Vietnamese have eth, and isn't it /D/?
It has crossed-d, which is simply a d with a horizontal bar, and is /d/;
it's plain d that is /D/.

> Are there terms similar to 'dual' and 'trial' for numbers four-ten? If so,
> what are they?
Not that I know of, but there is "paucal" for "a few".

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