Re: Vowel harmony part 2
From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 14:23 |
Rob Haden <magwich78@...> writes:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:11:52 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg=20Rhiemeier?=
> <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
>
> >I have seen the same vowel system in a reconstruction of Proto-Uralic,
> >so there is nothing wrong with it, I think. Nicely done.
> >
> >Jörg.
>
> It's funny that you say that, because I came up with that system by trying
> to reconstruct a very early stage of Pre/Proto-Uralic! Pekka Samallahti, a
> professor of Uralic linguistics, reconstructed the following vowel system
> for Proto-Uralic:
[vowel system snup]
> Where did you see the reconstruction of Proto-Uralic that you mentioned?
I saw it in a handbook of linguistics, and in an article by Frederik Kortlandt,
"The Indo-Uralic Verb". The latter is available online:
http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art203e.pdf
Both sources attribute it to Samallahti.
If this system can be reduced to an earlier 3-vowel system, the latter
is perhaps the system of the common ancestor of Uralic, Indo-European,
and Q, as the IE and Q systems can also be reduced to a pre-ablaut
system of /a i u/. (Q is the provisional designation of my main conlang family,
which is a fictional sister group to IE and Uralic. On the Q vowel system
and its prehistory, see my previous post.)
Jörg.
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