Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

Joe scripsit:

> Aye?  Interesting.  The only vowel harmony system I'm familiar with is
> the Turkish one, which is very...regular.  (Unrounded) front vowels
> harmonise with (unrounded) front vowels.  Of course, there are two sets
> of harmony, I think.  e-harmony (which ignores roundedness), and
> i-harmony(which doesn't).
As I wrote here back in 1999:

# Qyrgyz (Kirghiz) is perhaps the most difficult sort of vowel harmony
# known: every vowel in a given word must agree on both front/back and
# rounded/unrounded scales, and there are 8 vowels, i e ö ü y a u o.
# So if the first vowel is either ö or ü, *all* the other vowels
# must be either ö or ü.  Ditto for y and a, u and o, i and e.
# Note that y is not /y/ but barred-i.

Searching the conlang archives for "vowel harmony" may be quite useful:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?S1=conlang .

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