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  Petrasti > 10 hours ago

  I have a question for everyone. I haven't found anything about this in the forum yet. Is there already a thread in which the a to o (or vice versa) swap has been discussed? (I am of course excluding my previous thread which was not commentable because of my thesis)
  Is there already an analysis on this?
  
  Here are a few examples:
  
  Dom dam, chol chal, dol dal, pol pal, lol lal, cheol cheal, kooiin koaiin,
  dain doin, Chor char, am om, or ar, oror arar, tol tal, chom cham,
  kol kal, chaiin choiin, dar dor, daiin doiin, otchor otchar, taiin toiin,
  saiin soiin, c+hol c+hal, aiir oiir, chory chary, dary dory, sal sol,

• RE: The vowel exchange "a" to "o"

  dashstofsk > 8 hours ago

  If you were to look at some matrices of character affinities then you will see that both a and o share a liking for l and r, but otherwise they cannot be interchanged.
  
  

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• RE: The vowel exchange "a" to "o"

  Petrasti > 7 hours ago

  Consider, for example, only the first four lines of f2v.
  
  First, I add the words from the folio, and then the words you find in the manuscript with the o/a or a/o substitution.
  
  kooiin - koaiin
  cheo - chea
  pchor - pchar
  otaiin - otoiin
  dain - doin
  chor - char
  cho - cha
  daiin - doiin
  chody - chady
  cheor - chear
  
  Not all words are subject to the exchange, but too many to call it a coincidence. Therefore, the question is whether anyone has already looked into this topic more intensively?

• RE: The vowel exchange "a" to "o"

  dashstofsk > 5 hours ago

  (7 hours ago)Petrasti Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the question is whether anyone has already looked into this topic more intensively?

  
  I have in the past looked into this for many character pairs. The matrices of affinities will give you some clues as to which characters can possibly be interchanged. Attached are lists from language A of the most frequency a and o words and alongside the frequency of words formed by the exchange. I can't see much that is significant in this particular exchange.

• RE: The vowel exchange "a" to "o"

  Petrasti > 4 hours ago

  Do you know a language or old manuscripts in which a vowel exchange with always the same two vowels is typical or at least known or occurs? Or why do you think this exchange exists in the manuscripts? Do you think they are words with the same meaning or not?
  Or why do you think there is a larger group of words with the vowel exchange in this system?

• RE: The vowel exchange "a" to "o"

  Mauro > 4 hours ago

  (4 hours ago)Petrasti Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do you know a language or old manuscripts in which a vowel exchange with always the same two vowels is typical or at least known or occurs?

  
  'Known to occour'? Standard Italian:
  
  caso (case), casa (house), case (houses) cosa (thing), coso (thing), cose (things), cosi (things)...
  raso (shaved + another couple meanings), rosa (rose, pink), roso (gnawed), reso (returned), resa (returned), risa (laughters)....
  razza (race), razzo (rocket), rozzo (rough)
  pazza (madwoman), pazzo (madman), pozzo (well), pozza (puddle), pizza, pezza, puzza.....
  ..... .... .....
  
  And more generally,+- every feminine noun/adjective etc. ending in 'a' has a male counterpart ending in 'o', while at the plural the endings are replaced by 'e' (feminine) and 'i' (male). So I guess one can say Standard Italian 'exchanges' a lot of vowels.
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