Re: vowel harmony

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?

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