Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 22516
Date: 2003-06-03

On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:14:16 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
>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.

Well, <e> and <o> were always long, even if they had long counterparts <ai>
and <au>.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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