Re: Consonant Harmony?

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.

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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