Re: vowel harmony

Quoting caotope <johnvertical@...>:


> > Round vs. Unround sometimes has more than two values in
> > conlangs, although I am not personally aware of any natlang in which
> > it has more than two values.
>
> Don't some dialects of Swedish shift /u\/ to /y_c/ - hence contrasting
> three degrees of roundedness in high front vowels?
Not as far as I'm aware.

However, something similar happens in what I believe is the majority
pronunciation, where long /u\/ is realized as [2_w:] - that's a labialized long
[2]. This gives ju three-way distinctions like _mer_ [me:r] "more", _mör_ [m2:r]
"tender", _mur_ [m2_w:r] "wall".

                                              Andreas