Front rounded vowel question

[Pekka Sammallahti]

Uralic:
Livonian (Baltic Finnic)
Saami lgs (the southernmost lgs developed secondary üs)
Manysi (Tavda dialect through velarization, others through lowering to  
low vowels)
Permic lgs (through velarization)
Proto-Samoyedic
(Proto-Samoyed developed a secondary *ü which was unrounded in  
Nganasan and velarized in Enets and Nenets)

Pekka Sammallahti


Quoting E-Ching Ng <e-ching.ng at yale.edu>:

> 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
>
> ___________________________________
>
> E-Ching Ng
> Department of Linguistics, Yale University
> http://pantheon.yale.edu/~en27/
>



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