Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> >
> > Rather than just German and Dutch, you can throw in the entire
> > Germanic
> > branch - those that don't have 'em, like English and Icelandic, used
> > to.
> >
>
>But they lost them. And since they are both geographically isolated from
>the
>area where front rounded vowels appeared and were maintained, it's even a
>stronger point in favour of an areal feature.
I hope you didn't take me as arguing against the areal feature.
Andreas
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