Re: Consonant Harmony?

Sav bolung!

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From: Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:21:39 +0200
Subject: Re: Consonant harmony?

> --- In conlang@y..., "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@U...> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> Well, Izrinbaa~ /Mr`Mm"bA~_k/ has some sort of total phoneme harmony.
> It's got two sets of consonants, and each has its own set of five
> vowels (though both vowel sets are written with the same vowel letters
> since the consonants already designate which family it meant).
AFAIK the similar situation is in Khmer (natlang!), only it has a set of 13 vowel pairs...

> -- Christian Thalmann
So"vmekte,
Yitzik
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