Re: Finnish KASKI

*/ü/ was part of the original inventory, **/ö/ was not.

Front Back
Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
Close i ü ï u
Mid e o
Open ä a

Wikipedia states:
Rounded vowels were restricted to initial syllables. Vocalic phonemes
in non-initial syllables were restricted to two or three. One view is
that there were only two archiphonemic non-initial vowels /a/
and /i/, realized as four allophones as per vowel harmony. Another
view is that there were /a/, /i/ and /ə/. There were no
diphthongs or
long vowels.
Unquote

Jouppe
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Thank you Jouppe for providing this beautiful
collection of prejudices about what PU
should be like.
Patrick,
I strongly advise you to take *nothing*
into account if you plan to include PU
in your work.

Just to take an simple example,
there were long vowels.
And they are kept long
by Ugric and Hungarian.
number three : ha:rom
is from o+?
as proved by Salish k_?_l-

Arnaud

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