Re: Non-Finno-Ugric/Turkish vowel harmony systems and the evolution thereof.

feurieux wrote:

<<Can anyone give me examples of vowel harmony systems
that are neither Finno-Ugric nor Turkish? How would
vowel harmony evolve in a language previously without
such a system?>>

The most common type of vowel harmony in the world is ATR vowel harmony.
Leggbo has ATR harmony.   So, for that system you have underrepresented
vowels E and O, which appear either as [e] or [E] (for E), and [o] or [O]
(for O), depending on the lax/tenseness of the preceeding vowels.

I have a vowel harmony system for one of my languages that includes its
historical origins.   It's the same vowel system as Turkish, but rather than
two underrepresented vowels, there are (I think) 21.   I posted it to the
list twice, but no one read it.

-David

"imDeziZejDekp2wilDez ZejDekkinel..."
"You can celebrate anything you want..."
               -John Lennon

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