Re: Transcription exercise

Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:

> Benct Philip Jonsson jazdy:
>
>
> | I thought of the change in some Turkic languages whereby
> | palatal vowel harmony is replaced by palatal consonant
> | harmony -- i.e. rounded vowels in 'front' vords become
> | back, but the consonants of these 'front' words remain
> | palatalized before the formerly front vowels.
>
> Exactly. This phenomenon is especially peculiar to Karaim, but the tendency
> is notable in Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar, Nogay.
> ObConlang: That reminds me to try to resume work on Project 20 (formerly
> known as Kumanzha). This LLL-styled Turkic conlang is going to have the same
> kind of harmony due to the influence of the East Slavic phonology.
Doesn't Uzbek do something similar? I seem to recall /k2/>[ko] and /ko/>[qo], in
particular.

                                                       Andreas