Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

Michael Poxon wrote:
> Something I've been considering for a while is a conlang in which there is
> actually "vowel-consonant harmony".
I assume you mean harmony *at a distance*, right? If you include
strict locality, then virtually every language has some kind of
assimilation/dissimilation.

> The idea is that a front vowel can only
> occur next to a predominantly fronted consonant. For example the front vowel
> /e/ could occur next to /t/ but not /g/ - that would have to occur with a
> back vowel like /a/.
A completely mundane example of (local) palatalization would satisfy this
kind of distribution.

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