Front rounded vowel question

[Wolfgang Schulze]

Just to add some further data:

a. Geoffrey Hall has discussed [ü] > [u] etc. in his 1892 dissertation 
on "Rhaeto-Cisalpine dialects" (available from 
http://digidownload.libero.it/alpdn/TesiDiHull/TheLinguisticUnityOfNI&R.pdf). 

b. Most Bavarian dialects have [ü] > [i];
c. Low Prussian dialects of Low Saxon (Plauttdietsch) usually habe [ü] > 
[i] ~ [i:], e.g. (ü >i [gli:k] and ö > e [sche:n]);
d. Kortlandt  describes a process of "[d]elabialization of u, u-, uN, ü, 
u"-, üN [for Late Middle Slavic]. This development yielded y, y-, yN, i, 
i-, iN (...)".
f. For Selice Romani (SW-Slovakia), Elšík 2007:23-24 maintains: "The 
only Hungarian phonemes to get phonologically adapted in Selice Romani 
loanwords are the front rounded vowels: the mid /ö/ [ø] and /o"/ [ø:] 
and the high /ü/ [y] and /u"/ [y:]. They are mostly replaced with their 
front unrounded counterparts, the mid /e/ [e ~ æ] and /é/ [æ:] and the 
high /i/ [i] and /í/ [i:], respectively, e.g. Hungarian csütörtök 
‘Thursday’ > Selice Romani c(itertek-o and Hungarian ko"mu"ves 
‘bricklayer’ > Selice Romani kémíveš-i" [cf. 
http://ulug.ff.cuni.cz/lingvistika/elsik/Elsik_Loanwords-in-Selice-Romani_071104.pdf]-
e. Delabialization of [ü] > [i] and [ö] > [e] is common feature of the 
Nizh dialect of Udi (South East Caucasian), compare Varatshen dialect 
gölö > gele 'much/very', Vartashen dialect dürüst' > diris(t') 'upright, 
right, correct' etc.

All the best,
Wolfgang

>
> E-Ching Ng kirjoitti 25.3.2011 kello 6.01:
>
>> 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

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