Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

Ray Brown wrote:

>
>>
>> It seems to be harmonic except the "a[A]" that is the only unrounded
>> vowel
>> of your back vowels,
>
>
> It does not seem to bother the Finns - nor many other peoples in the
> 'real
> world' whose languages have vowel harmony, with more or less the same
> back
> vowels as Adam's.
>
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).

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