Anthologica Universe Atlas / Forums / Department of Creativity / Old Oxic / <!>Old Oxic (2014-06-20 14:28:05)
quoting meficat:Yeah, my first plan was to pull a Sanskrit, collapse everything but the high vowels,
Hasn't Sanskrit already (partly) done that?
Sanskrit merged PIE *e o ē ō, even in diphthings, to a ā. Most of its vowels are a or ā, which makes memorizing endings difficult (they all look the same).