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<P>The vowel [y] of standard Albanian appears as [i] in the Arvanitika dialects (eg. Salamis) as in <EM>sy</EM> 'eye' > [si], <EM>yll</EM> 'star' > [iL]. Presumably, the current South Welsh pronumciation of u in pump 'five' as [pimp] reflects an unrounding of [y]. </P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: E-Ching Ng <E-CHING.NG@YALE.EDU><BR>Sent: Mar 24, 2011 10:01 PM <BR>To: histling-l <HISTLING-L@MAILMAN.RICE.EDU><BR>Subject: [Histling-l] Front rounded vowel question <BR><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>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><BR>Hopefully,<BR>E-Ching<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR><BR>E-Ching Ng<BR>Department of Linguistics, Yale University<BR><A href="http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Een27/" target=_blank>http://pantheon.yale.edu/~en27/</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>