Re: CHAT: Tacos et al.

Steg Belsky wrote:
> After having taken Yiddish for a year (which also derounds German's
> front-rounded vowels), i've begun to pronounce {ü} as /i/ and {ö} as
> /ej/, but generally only for *new* words and names that i come across.
Haitian Creole has two layers of French vocabulary, distinguishable by
what happens to rounded front vowels: unrounded (y>i) in the original
lexicon and unfronted (y>u) in later borrowings from French.  Or maybe
the other way around.

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