Re: Finnish KASKI

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

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> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:58:22 -0000, "etherman23"
> <etherman23@...> wrote:
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> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "jouppe" <jouppe@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Could this system do away with ü and ï then??
> >> Jouppe
> >
> >Sammallahti's system can be reduced to /i u e o/ with no vowel harmony
> >very simply:
>
> What, no /a/?

It's not necessary and makes it harder to understand umlaut and vowel
harmony. You'd need the /a/ to be back and rounded, so why not just
assume it's /o/? I suppose it's possible that /a/ is an allophone of
/o/ before front vowels.