Re: Constructive Criticism Appreciated: Vowels

Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:01:23 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > No open vowels? That's _decidedly_ unusual ...
>
> Wasn't it almost a universal that [a] occurs in a language?
>
> Or, at the least, /a/ (possibly realised as [A] or something similar,
> if not exactly IPA [a]).
There's supposed to be a universal that all languages have at least one low vowel.

                                               Andreas

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