Re: Finnish KASKI

Thank you for your cautionary advice, Arnaud.

But the fat lady has already sung:

http://geocities.com/proto-language/c-URALIC-7_table.htm

I do not know when I will be able to get back to it.


Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI


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> */ü/ was part of the original inventory, **/ö/ was not.
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> Front Back
> Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
> Close i ü ï u
> Mid e o
> Open ä a
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> 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
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> 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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