Re: vowel harmony extension?

daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> Yoon Ha 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.
> >
> > Does this exist anywhere?  Or are there phonetic/speech-
> > production/??? reasons it probably wouldn't exist?  Because
> > if not, I think I'll try it out sometime.  :-)
>
> Hm. Someone asked this before the summer iirc. Was that
> Nicole? Was it Guaraní that had a kind of consonant harmony?
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Was not Nicole.  As a matter of fact, Nicole doesn't remember the
discussion at all.  But it sounds cool.  It's something I've toyed with,
but never done.  Mostly because my langs don't usually have enough
consonants to make it work out well.

Nicole