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?
<snip interesting explanation of Karaim>

>
> I think Guaraní had some kind of palatalization harmony
> as well, but I'm not sure.
Well, if we can have vowel harmony, and consonant harmony with an
attribute such as palatalization, couldn't a language logically have
harmony with an attribute such as alveolar-ness or something like that?

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Robert