> > =============
> >
> > 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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