Re: vowel harmony extension?

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 16:54 2000-10-26 -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> >But I got to wondering, is there any such thing as *consonant* harmony in
> >any language?  I dunno, maybe a word would only have all palatals, all
> >labials, etc.  Or go the other way and words would only have all
> >fricatives, nasals, etc.
>
> Karaite has changed the Turkic vowel harmony into palatalization harmony,
> i.e. it has palatalized consonants in words where other Turkic languages
> have front vowels.  I always found that way cool! 8^)>
Interesting!  There are so many wonderful ways in which languages evolve....

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query...I've been out of things
lately (including taking the GRE Math this morning at 8:30, some killer
problem sets, and Life in General).

YHL