Re: Transcription exercise
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 6:37 |
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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.
| I don't
| know if it works the other way too so that palatal(ized)
| consonants in 'back' words lose their palatality.
There are no phonemicly palatalized conss in Turkic langs, so we cannot be
sure if it could work or no.
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| Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
-- Yitzik
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