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Re: Do we have any linguists on this board?
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2006, 09:15:45 PM »
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Utah has a funky vowel shift--the one that makes /I/ go to /i/, "


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Re: Do we have any linguists on this board?
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2006, 08:44:49 PM »
That's only one of Utah's many dialectal oddities.
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Re: Do we have any linguists on this board?
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2006, 05:58:29 PM »
you know confuses me, all the double vowels in near eastern and semetic languages a few examples:
Maahallahmed(sumarrian)
Ahnarii(saudi arabian)
Bazaai(muslim)
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Re: Do we have any linguists on this board?
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2006, 11:37:14 PM »
Lengthened vowels are a common feature of many languages. English used to have them, but during the Great Vowel Shift they turned into diphthongs. That's why they call them "long" and "short" vowels--they actually used to sound the same but with different lengths.
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