Re: Consonant harmony (and intro)

Kate Sherwood nevesht:
>Hello, list!
>
>I've been lurking for a while, but I haven't had a reason to post yet.
>I'm an undergrad who hopes to go into linguistics, but I haven't had
>much of an opportunity to study the subject formally yet. I'll
>probably only pop up now and then to ask questions, since I don't
>really know enough yet to *answer* many.
>
>My primary interest is in artlangs and fictlangs. Mostly fictlangs, I
>suppose. I like for my langs to have a people to speak them, but am
>not really all that interested in fiddling around with history. I've
>created a few, and I'll probably post them eventually for suggestions
>& criticism.
>
>Now that the intro's over with, my question:
>
>I'm creating a language for a friend's fantasy novel and she really
>likes the idea of consonant harmony. The problem is that I don't
>really know how it's likely to work given the phonemes I've already
>chosen (which she also really likes).
>
>I have some limited info on consonant harmony in Barbareo Chumash and
>Tahltan from Mithun's _Languages of Native North America_, but I'm
>looking for other sources of inspiration. What other natural languages
>use consonant harmony?
>
>--
>Kate
Oops, I accidently didn't send this to the list(I didn't notice the original
message was from a GMail account, so didn't change the address sent to), so,
let try this again.

Several languages in the Pacific Northwest have silibant harmony, i.e. can't
have /s/ and /S/ in the same word. This is also found in the Metis dialect
of French and in Michif(French/Cree mixed language).



-Wayne Chevrier