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Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, September 9, 2002, 9:01
At 09:52 2002-09-06 +0100, you wrote:

>do icelandic |ö| (o with dots) and |au| not contain >front roundeds ? i know |y| and |y'| have converged >with |i| and |i'|, but these other two remain, don't >they
More exactly those vowels that used to be front rounded in Old Icelandic have become unrounded, but OTOH those vowels that in Old Icelandic used to be (short) /U O Ou/ have become fronted. /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)