Re: vowel harmony extension?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 4, 2000, 14:48 |
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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^)>
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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