Re: Critique sought

Nik Taylor wrote:

> But there are natural langs that are exceptions to those.  Some language
> (Navajo?) I read about has /i e a u/, for example.
Occitan has /a E e i O u y/ in stressed positions: the result of sound-shifts
u > y (as in French) and o > u.  Furthermore, unstressed final a is pronounced
/o/! Thus written "luna" is /'lyno/.

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