Re: Consonant Harmony?
| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 19:43 |
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Sav bolung!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Muke Tever" <mktvr@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Consonant harmony?
> 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.
Quoting from my Turkish textbook (trans. from Russian):
<< #77. Consonant Harmony Law.
...Consonants assimilate according to their voicing, while followed by
a suffix with initial consonant. If the stem ends with a voiced
consonant, the suffix begins with a voiced one too; if the stem ends
with a voiceless consonant, the suffix begins with a voiceless one
too. Examples: predicative suffix in 3sn and 3pl, Loc. and Abl. cases
suffixes.
Bedri pilottur. -- Bedri is a pilot. (pilot+dIr)
Palto dolaptadIr. -- The coat is in the wardrobe. (dolap+da+dIr)
Mektepten geliyor. -- He is coming from the school. (mektep+dan)>>
You can also see that it's accompanied with palatal and labial harmony
of vowels. Turkish is odd...
> *Muke!
Sövmekte,
Yitzik
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