Front rounded vowel question

[Alexander Vovin]

Middle Mongolian /y/ and /o"/ became /u/ and /IPA omega/ in modern
Khalkha Mongolian, Chuvash reflexes of proto-Turkic *y and *o" are
extremely complex, *y is preserved in few cases, but in most cases it
and *o" in all cases  are replaced by different vowels.

Alexander Vovin
Professor of East Asian Languages
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:01 PM, E-Ching Ng <e-ching.ng at yale.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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