Re: the sound [a]

Hi!

Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> writes:
>...
> Now there are some languages that lack /u/, and Japanese is a famous case.
> It has the unrounded counterpart /M/, however. Cree and Obijwe among the
> Algonquian languages, Navajo and some others in Athabaskan, and various
> other Native American languages also lack /u/. I can't think of any
> languages anywhere that don't have /i/ - unless you count Georgian, which
> lacks /i/ but instead has /I/, so I honestly don't want to count it.
I think Adyghe has /a @ 1/.  But maybe (if not probably) it has [i] as
an allophone of /1/.

**Henrik