Unreality of One-Vowel Systems (was: Bader's article on *-os(y)o)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> > In fact, since sensible linguists are bound
> > by language universals to reconstruct protolanguages properly,
> > might we please keep remembering that one-vowel systems are
> > _NON-EXISTENT_. It's not even considerable.
>
> Now, that's a deliberate lie in the mouth of anyone who knows

about

> Sanskrit.

I'm afraid that is itself a lie. Have you forgotten the debate we
had here on whether Sanskrit had a one-vowel vowel system? Or are
you saying your opponents were liars?

Richard.