Front rounded vowel question

[Peter Trudgill]

Greek and Icelandic are other languages which used to have front 
rounded vowels and no longer do.


At 06:01 +0100 25/3/11, E-Ching Ng wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I'm looking for languages which lost front rounded vowels, e.g. 
>German /y/ > Yiddish /i/. So far I've got Old > Middle English, 
>OHG > Yiddish, French > creoles. If you know of other languages with 
>front rounded vowels and descendants, I would be very grateful. I 
>will of course post a summary to the list.
>
>Hopefully,
>E-Ching
>
>___________________________________
>
>E-Ching Ng
>Department of Linguistics, Yale University
><http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Een27/>http://pantheon.yale.edu/~en27/
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Peter Trudgill  FBA
Prof. of Sociolinguistics, Agder Univ., N
Adjunct Prof., RCLT, La Trobe Univ., AU
Prof. Emeritus of Eng. Linguistics, Fribourg Univ, CH
Hon. Prof. of Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK

Forthcoming book: Sociolinguistic typology: social determinants of 
linguistic structure and complexity. OUP Oct/Nov 2011.
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