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Re: the sound [a]

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 20:11
Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Danny Wier wrote: > > 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 believe there are some with /e/ but not /i/. > > The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language lists a language Amuesha > (Andean-Equatorial family) with a vowel system /e a o/.
I'd be itching to analyze that as /i a u/. Andreas

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Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>