Re: Finnish KASKA

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53814
Date: 2008-02-20

> > =============
> >
> > PU is "standard" Proto-World
> > and had only *a *i *o *u

> > Arnaud
> >
> > ==========

Are you really saying that "Proto-World" is the basis of your Proto-
Uralic reconstruction here, or is it a marvellous coincidence that
you reconstruct the vowel system identically?

What about internal Uralic evidence?

Jouppe
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So far
I have never encounter a (proto-) language
that requires more than four short vowels
*a *i *o *u.
Conspicuously,
there is no need for *e
distinct from either *a or *i.

Uralic, when handled "cleanly",
follows the general four-item system.

Uralic evidence proves the current PU
"reconstruction" is bad.

Arnaud
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