Re: Consonant Harmony?

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:58, Muke Tever wrote:
> From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
> Subject: Consonant harmony?
>
> > I was sitting here reading an article about word classes in
> > Winnebago when all of a sudden, more or less out of nowhere, I
> > began to wonder if there were conlangs with consonant harmony.
> > (I suppose some of the examples reminded me of some examples
> > of palatal harmony I'd studied last year.) None of my languages
> > have it, and I've never heard of any.  How about it? Are
> > there any?
>
> The only example that jumps to my head is Greek stops that are brought
> together sharing their voicing type--voiced/voiceless/aspirate, so: phth,
> khth, but not pth, gth.
Maybe take a look at Georgian.

Wesley Parish

>
> I imagine consonant disharmony would be a lot more common.  "Root
> constraints" like those seen in Semitic or PIE have to come from
> somewhere... but I don't know if there are any live examples offhand...
>
>
>     *Muke!
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