Talk:Vertical vowel system

Apparently, Proto-Athabaskan is also believed to display a linear or vertical vowel system (cf. the Article on Proto-Athabaskan), which, just like Northwest Caucasian, probably developed as a counter-balance to its exuberantly long consonant inventory. This fact - and the circumstances in which a VVS arises - should be, I think, somehow included in the article. What do you think? Stephanos1ko 21:27, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

> I really don't think a VVS arises 'as a counter-balance to a long consonant inventory'. It's clear that NWC languages developed VVS due to a loss of /i/ and /u/ to palatalization and labialization, whereas Mongolian (e.g.) developed it as a reinterpretation of F/B vowels to ATR. Kielbasa1 (talk) 13:23, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Blank-and-Redirect Notice
This is a notice (per WP:BLAR) that I have blanked-and-redirected the page vowel dimension here for the reasons noted in the edit summary on that page. Indigopari (talk) 04:33, 22 April 2023 (UTC)