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

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Monday, April 16, 2001, 9:39
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

> * Dutch has /y/ < /u/ (right?)
I don't think so: Dutch has both /y/ and /u/ (vuur /vyr/ "fire" and voer /vur/ "fodder") but /y/ alternates with /i/ (vier /vir/ = archaic and dialectal "vuur", though it also means "four"), not with /u/. (I should perhaps have marked the vowels long; vowels followed by /r/ are slightly lengthened, not really long, and I can't manage a single elevated dot for half-long in ASCII) Irina -- Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@valdyas.org (myself) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas

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