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<div>The question was about which languages had LOST font rounded
vowels, not which languages curently have them, I thought.</div>
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<div>At 11:46 +0100 25/3/11, Hewitt, Stephen wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000080">Sorry, not strictly
true about Icelandic, even if historic <y> /y/ and <ö>
/ø/ are now <y> /?/ and <æ> /ai/. However, there are
still front rounded vowels (admittedly of different origin) in the
phoneme inventory:</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_phonology#Vowels"><font
color="#000080"
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_phonology#Vowels</font></a><font
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000080">Best
regards</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000080">Steve Hewitt<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Tahoma"
size="-1"><b>From:</b> Peter Trudgill
[mailto:peter.trudgill@unifr.ch]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 25, 2011 9:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> histling-l<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Histling-l] Front rounded vowel
question</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Greek and Icelandic are other languages
which used to have front rounded vowels and no longer do.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>At 06:01 +0100 25/3/11, E-Ching Ng
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear all,<br>
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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.<br>
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Hopefully,<br>
E-Ching<br>
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E-Ching Ng<br>
Department of Linguistics, Yale University<br>
<a
href="http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Een27/"
>http://pantheon.yale.edu/~en27/</a><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2" color="#000000">Peter
Trudgill FBA</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2" color="#000000">Prof. of
Sociolinguistics, Agder Univ., N</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2" color="#000000">Adjunct
Prof., RCLT, La Trobe Univ., AU</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2" color="#000000">Prof.
Emeritus of Eng. Linguistics, Fribourg Univ, CH</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2" color="#000000"><u>Hon.
Prof. of Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK</u></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2"
color="#000000">Forthcoming book:<i> Sociolinguistic typology: social
determinants of linguistic structure and complexity</i>. OUP Oct/Nov
2011.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-2"
color="#000000">__________________________________________</font></blockquote
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color="#000000">__________________________________________</font></div
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<div><font size="-3" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Peter Trudgill
FBA</font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Prof. of Sociolinguistics, Agder
Univ., N</font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Adjunct Prof., RCLT, La Trobe
Univ., AU</font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Prof. Emeritus of Eng.
Linguistics, Fribourg Univ, CH</font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000"><u>Hon. Prof. of
Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK</u></font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Forthcoming book:<i>
Sociolinguistic typology: social determinants of linguistic structure
and complexity</i>. OUP Oct/Nov 2011.</font></div>
<div><font size="-3"
color="#000000">__________________________________________</font></div
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