From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 22516
Date: 2003-06-03
>Well, <e> and <o> were always long, even if they had long counterparts <ai>
>Sanskrit is not monovocalic in this sense because there ARE contrasts
>and we can see quite clearly that the language has five short vowels
>"a", "e", "i", "o" and "u" with long counterparts.