Re: vowel harmony extension?

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?

Strangely enough, I thought about this too the other day
at the Karaim seminar (a language related to Turkish),
which actually had a kind of consonant harmony. It had
vowel harmony as well, and if the vowels were all front
vowels, then the consonants were all palatalized. If the
vowels were back ones, the consonants weren't palatalized.
Very cool. Here's an example (the j's should really be
superscript j's):

mjenj macji kjibjik  aGac usnu     mjinjaljmjim.
1SG   cat   as:POSTP tree on:POSTP climb:POT:NEG:PRES:1SG
'I cannot climb up a tree like a cat.'

Lots of j's there! :)

I think Guaraní had some kind of palatalization harmony
as well, but I'm not sure.

Daniel