Re: [tied] Re: Unreality of One-Vowel Systems (was: Bader's article

From: P&G
Message: 32906
Date: 2004-05-24

> What stops us applying the same analysis to, say, Classical Arabic?

Because in Sanskrit /i/ actually does alternate with /y/ in almost all
cases, and /u/ with /v/ and so on. We can also see how /a/ + /i/ = /e/ and
so on. This is simply not the case in Classical Arabic or most other
languages.

Peter