ADS-L/NTY synergy

Tue Apr 24 05:01:05 UTC 2001

At 9:07 AM -0400 4/24/01, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>  I call the
>double-dot in Finnish and Chinese "umlaut" with no shame ...

The Finnish one, at least, IS an umlaut, as is the Turkish
counterpart--they mark the vowels they sit on as fronted.  Seems like
umlautish behavior to me.  Likewise the one in Tibetan, I'm pretty
sure.  I don't know about the Chinese one, though--is it a
vowel-fronter?

larry