Re: vowel harmony

--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

> Steven Williams wrote:
>
> > I've read about retroflexion harmony in some
> language
> > families, but I can't for the life of me remember
> > which ones (perhaps Dravidian or Indo-Aryan?).
> > Basically, dental [n_d] tends to harmonize with
> > retroflex [n`], even at a distance of a syllable
> or so
> > in a word. Not sure about the plosives, though.
>
> I vaguely remember reading something about that ...
> one of the
> Australian languages?
...Or maybe that. Many Australian languages have a set
of retroflexes, and they certainly have some
interesting phonetic phenomena. It certainly is hard
to keep dentals and retroflexes seperate in the same
word (at least, in my abortive attempt to learn Sanskrit).


	

	
		
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