Re: Kyrgyz was Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

Emaelivpar Peter Clark:
>From what I can make of it, Kyrgyz has the following vowels:
>
>i y  1   u
> e 2    o
>  E
>   &
>    a
Wow, that's really front-heavy.  Is that as unusal in natlangs as it seems,
or does it actually happen quite often?  What driving forces are there that
affect a language's vowel distribution, in either the imbalanaced or
symmetric direction?


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