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Re: Consonant Harmony?

From:Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 12:32
From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
> I began to wonder if there were conlangs with > consonant harmony.
In the older (pre-unification) version of Thagojian, only certain consonants could appear in any given word, but that was down to some grammatically-conditioned suprasegmental stuff. Much like in Celtic langs, where the initial consonant is mutated, in old Thagojian, whole words would have one, two or sometimes more sets of mutations applied. E.g. a word might be all nasals (to show it was a possesed noun), and have the voice mask "-+..." (i.e. voiceless first, then all voiced) to show it was a tool-noun derived from a verb, for example |mfhingma| /F_01Nm@/ ((somebody's) eye-glasses), from {fkp}, (root related to vision). --- Pb