Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:03:48 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@...>
wrote:

>In fact the pronunciation ['awa] for _agua_ is very widespread in
>Spanish,
But many Spanishes have [M\] for weak /g/ (where some others have [G]), and
[M\w] > [w] is if anything even a more natural change.  I don't have the
impression there's anything especially disfavoured about [Gw], though I
can't think of a good example offhand.

>I use the possible non-humanity of the Sohlosjan as an excuse for the
>typologically odd vowel height harmony, although I know of at least
>one human language which had vowel height harmony, namely Middle
>Korean.
Did it?  I thought there wasn't any consensus on what the harmonic phenomena
in Korean actually were, in origin.

Chukchi also has (dominant-regressive) vowel height harmony, though /e/ is a
member of both harmony classes, in two different pairings, adding a layer of
nonstraightforwardness.
  http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~spena/Chukchee/chapter2.html#vowelalt

Alex

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