> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:32:10 -0700
> From: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
> (I posted earlier on Altaic vowel harmony being possibly related to
> Indo-European ablaut. What I should've said is that there are some
> parallels of Turkic vowel harmony with Germanic ablaut -- you have
> fronted vowels, and rounded vowels. The "vowel cube" of Turkish I'll
> write about soon.
I think you mean Germanic Umlaut here. Ablaut by itself stays inside
the boring old vowel triangle.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)