Re: conlan/natlang coincidences

Hi!

Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> > {eo} /O/
> > > Thus e.g. Seoul /sOul/.
>
> I thought Korean {eo} was /7/, rather than /O/. Is
> this perhaps dialectal, or a recent soundchange? Or
> am I just plain wrong? :)
Oh, is it?  Hmm, maybe.  I heard it as /O/.  If it were /7/, the
system would only have three heights for back vowels, but why not.
Hmm.

Maybe it changed from /O/ to /7/ when /&/ (or /E/?) collapsed with
/e/?  No idea.

**Henrik