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Re: Chain shifts & transformed u's, was: Blandness

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 6:48
En réponse à dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>:

> > Yielding the system: > > i i- > ö o > a > > The mid front rounded vowel is not the result of umlauting and > is not accompanied by a high front rounded vowel. >
Wow! How stable is this system?! It looks so asymmetrical I don't understand how it could simply happen in the first place!!! I'm sure if any conlanger had designed such a system for a naturalistic artlang, many people would have complained that it was too implausible... Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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