Re: Vowel harmony part 2

Rob Haden <magwich78@...> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:11:52 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg=20Rhiemeier?=
> <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
>
> >I have seen the same vowel system in a reconstruction of Proto-Uralic,
> >so there is nothing wrong with it, I think.  Nicely done.
> >
> >Jörg.
>
> It's funny that you say that, because I came up with that system by trying
> to reconstruct a very early stage of Pre/Proto-Uralic!  Pekka Samallahti, a
> professor of Uralic linguistics, reconstructed the following vowel system
> for Proto-Uralic:
  [vowel system snup]

> Where did you see the reconstruction of Proto-Uralic that you mentioned?
I saw it in a handbook of linguistics, and in an article by Frederik Kortlandt,
"The Indo-Uralic Verb".  The latter is available online:

http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art203e.pdf

Both sources attribute it to Samallahti.

If this system can be reduced to an earlier 3-vowel system, the latter
is perhaps the system of the common ancestor of Uralic, Indo-European,
and Q, as the IE and Q systems can also be reduced to a pre-ablaut
system of /a i u/.  (Q is the provisional designation of my main conlang family,
which is a fictional sister group to IE and Uralic.  On the Q vowel system
and its prehistory, see my previous post.)

Jörg.

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