Vowel harmony - Other languages

Vowel harmony (also metaphony) is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels. Vowel harmony - Explanation. Harmony processes are "long-distance" in the sense that the assimilation involves sounds that are separated by intervening segments (usually consonant segments). In other words, harmony refers to the assimilation of sounds that are not adjacent to each other. For example, a vowel at the beginning of word can trigger assimilation in a vowel at ...

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• Vowel harmony - Explanation
• Vowel harmony - Features of vowel harmony
• Vowel harmony - Vowel harmony & umlaut terminology
• Vowel harmony - Vowel harmony archiphonemes and underspecification
• Vowel harmony - Examples in selected languages
• Vowel harmony - Uralic languages
• Vowel harmony - Altaic languages
• Vowel harmony - Yokuts
• Vowel harmony - Korean
• Vowel harmony - Japanese
• Vowel harmony - Other languages
• Vowel harmony - Other types of harmony
• Vowel harmony - Vowel-consonant harmony
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• Vowel harmony - Bibliography

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Vowel harmony appears in almost all Uralic and Altaic languages. Some have speculated that the vowel harmony of the northwestern Finno-Ugric languages influenced the phonological phenomenon of umlaut that most of the living Germanic languages display. Vowel harmony - Uralic languages. In the Finnish language, there are three classes of vowels -- front, back, and neutral, where each front vowel has a back vowel pairing. Grammatical endings such as case and derivational endings â ...

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Although vowel harmony is the most well-known harmony, not all types of harmony that occur in the world's languages involve only vowels. Other types of harmony involve consonants (and is known as consonant harmony). Rarer types of harmony are those that involve or tone or both vowels and consonants (e.g. postvelar harmony). Vowel harmony - Vowel-consonant harmony. Some languages have harmony processes that involve an interaction between vowels and consonants. For example, Chilcotin has a phonological process known as vowel flattening (i.e. post-velar harmony) where vowels m ...

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The term vowel harmony is used in two different senses, explained below. In the first sense, vowel harmony refers to any type of vowel harmony: that is, both progressive and regressive vowel harmony. When used in this sense, the term vowel harmony is synonymous with the term metaphony. In the second sense, vowel harmony refers only to progressive vowel harmony (beginning-to-end). For regressive harmony, the term umlaut is used. In this sense, metaphony ...

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Vowel harmony often involves dimensions such as Vowel height   (i.e. high, mid, or low vowels) Vowel backness   (i.e. front, central, or back vowels) Vowel roundedness   (i.e. rounded or unrounded) tongue root position (i.e. advanced or retracted tongue root, abbrev.: ±ATR) Nasalization   (i.e. oral or nasal) (in this case, a nasal consonant is usually the trigger) In many languages, vowels can be said to belong to particular classes, such as back vowe ...

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Harmony processes are "long-distance" in the sense that the assimilation involves sounds that are separated by intervening segments (usually consonant segments). In other words, harmony refers to the assimilation of sounds that are not adjacent to each other. For example, a vowel at the beginning of word can trigger assimilation in a vowel at the end of a word. The assimilation sometimes occurs across the entire word. This is represented schematically in the following diagram: See also:

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