Re: BAL (was: Re: TUNU)

Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> ;m - close back unrounded
> u - close back rounded
Cool, I'd been wondering if there were languages with a phonemic
distinction between those two, I figured there must've been.

> Lithuanian vowels
>
> a - open front unrounded
> a: - long a
> E - open mid front unrounded
> e - close-mid front unrounded
> i - close front unrounded
> i: - long close mid front unrounded
> o - close mid back unrounded
> O: - long open mid back unrounded
> u - close back rounded
> u: - long close back rounded
Interesting, should /E/ have been /E:/ (I'm just thinking that from the
pattern of /o/ vs. /O:/, and the other length contrasts, I know nothing
of Lithuanian itself).

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