Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 9, 2002, 9:01 |
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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^)>
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