Re: Tech Umlaut

From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>

| One of the most notable shifts between Proto-Nostratic and Tech is what I
called
| before "compression", where CVCV > CVVC > CVC.  The second vowel coalesces
with
| the first, creating a new vowel quality.  The second vowel of a root must be
a,
| i or u, so that makes three types of "umlaut".

Aw dawggonit, I changec that rule.  But there are still three types of umlaut,
corresponding to the three vowel "pairs": a~@, i~e, u~o.


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