Re: Finnish KASKA

Aenaud,

*i,*a, *o, *u

is seriously off-balance in the back-end.


Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA


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