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8I'm starting to get the feeling some of these questions are linguist bait ;-)nohat– nohat2010-08-06 19:11:24 +00:00Commented Aug 6, 2010 at 19:11
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4A bit, but very interesting topics nonetheless. It would be hard to ignore learning English from one such language, and vice versa. These are questions I wanted answered in the community from before the beta.Charlie– Charlie2010-08-06 19:35:11 +00:00Commented Aug 6, 2010 at 19:35
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@itrekkie: Try as I might I don't understand the question. Could you clarify?MikeSchinkel– MikeSchinkel2010-09-12 00:49:43 +00:00Commented Sep 12, 2010 at 0:49
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There are plenty of oddities in other languages as well (including Romance languages). French has u = [y], e = [ə]. There are a bunch of languages with o = [u]. Portuguese has e = [i] when it is unstressed and at the end of a word.herisson– herisson2015-12-09 00:30:24 +00:00Commented Dec 9, 2015 at 0:30
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1@suməlic Brazilian Portuguese has that (and not just as the end of a word, but whenever unstressed); European (and African) Portuguese has ⟨e⟩ = [i̵] instead.Janus Bahs Jacquet– Janus Bahs Jacquet2016-11-12 09:47:31 +00:00Commented Nov 12, 2016 at 9:47
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