Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1)

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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1)


> The frequency numbers for Proto-Uralic[*] are:
>
> u 28
> o 22
> a 17
> e 15
> I 14
> i 10
> ü 9
> ä 8
>
> I don't know where you propose to count the hard vowel /I/, but in any
> case, the whole thing yields far too many *kW's. If we count hard vs.
> soft, hard vocalism wins by a considerable margin.

OK. This weakens my Indo-Uralic theory :-) but as I said, I mainly took it
as an example of a possible vocalic system which would cause later this kind
of frequencyof *k, *kw and *k's. I am sure you will agree that it is
possible that there was a system in which 4 front vowels had higher
frequency together than back ones. Maybe to see the frequency of some Turkic
language for this. I just want to state that this kind of scenario is not
*impossible* at all.

Mate