PIE e/o Ablaut

[Richard M. Alderson III]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Stanley Friesen (sarima at friesen.net) wrote:

> This is where I start to have a problem.  As far as I know, NO living
> language has only one vowel, or at most only one or two such languages
> exist.

As far as I know, the only two languages ever analyzed as having only one
vowel, Abaza and Kabardian, have both been shown to have been mis-analyzed, and
both have two vowels, /a/ and /i-/.  (I believe I have the correct "ASCII IPA"
for [+ high, -back, -front, +vocalic], i. e. "barred i".)

								Rich Alderson