Re: vowel harmony extension?
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 27, 2000, 0:06 |
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, 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.
I'm not aware of any harmony, but there is disharmony. In Old Japanese you
can only have one voiced consonant per word. If you compound two words
which both have voiced consonants, then the second one must devoice.
I don't know if that is quite what you were looking for though.