ABSTRACT
Basque, a language isolate, is spoken by over 700,000 people in Spain and France. The vowels of Souletin Basque are a, e, i, o, u, y; vowels may be long or short, and may also surface as nasalized. Ofo is an extinct Siouan language formerly spoken along the lower Mississippi. All data for this language were elicited by John Swanton in 1908, first described in Swanton 1909, and fully set forth in Dorsey and Swanton 1912, which includes a dictionary of around 500 Ofo words. Sanskrit is one of the languages for which Grassmann’s Law was formulated. Sanskrit includes a set of alternations that has served as the subject of many phonological analyses. The vowel system of Cuzco Quechua is i, e, a, o, u; e and o occur mostly in Spanish loanwords and as a result of vowel lowering near uvulars.
