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Vowel harmony

In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological process in which vowels assimilate ("harmonize") to share certain distinctive features. Vowel harmony is often confined to the domain of a phonological word, but may extend across word boundaries in certain languages.

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"Long-distance"

Features of vowel harmony

Languages with vowel harmony

Other types of harmony

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Vowel harmony

Nodes170
Edges169
Triples231
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011765
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Vowel harmony

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related to Bibliography · 106
Vowel harmony → Acoustics, Amsterdam, Antonietta, Arias, Asher, Barbieri, Benjamins, Berlin, Bing, Bisetto, Blackwell PublishingShahin, California, Chenglong Huang, Course, CUNY Linguistic Conference, David, Delucchi, Description, DhoLuo, Doctoral
related to Other languages · 37
Vowel harmony → Additionally, Alene, Arabic, AssameseAustralian Aboriginal, BezhtaSome Chadic, Buchan Scots, BuwalChukchiCoeur, Coosan, Italo-Romance, Japanese, Kansai, Kgalagadi, LeoneseGalician, Lhasa TibetanTungusic, Maiduan, Malila, ManchuUtian, Neo-Aramaic, Northern Sotho, Old Japanese
related to Features of vowel harmony · 8
Vowel harmony → Guaraní, Nasalization, Nez Perce, Rhoticity, There, Unconventional, Vowel, Yurok
related to "Long-distance" · 7
Vowel harmony → For, In, The, This, Va, Vb, Vowel
related to Syllabic synharmony · 7
Vowel harmony → Diphthongs, It, Proto-Slavic, Slavic, Syllabic, The, This
related to Yokuts · 7
Vowel harmony → For, Similarly, These, Vowel, Vowels, Yawelmani, Yokutsan
related to Korean · 6
Vowel harmony → Korean, Korean's, Many, RTR, The, While Middle Korean
related to Turkic languages · 6
Vowel harmony → Persian, Proto-Turkic, The, Turkic, Uyghur, Uzbek
related to Unconventional systems · 6
Vowel harmony → Chukchi, In Nez Perce, Katherine Nelson, Languages, Nez Perce, Note
related to Sumerian · 5
Vowel harmony → ATR, Many, Sargonic Lagash, There, What

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vowel harmony vowels front back word words languages one two neutral also often root long language example suffixes suffix system

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Vowel harmonyis aphonological process in which vowels assimilate0.90text
Vowel harmonyis amost well-known harmony0.90text
Türkiye'dir 'it is Turkey'instance ofThis gives constructions0.80text
kapıdır 'it is the door'instance ofThis gives constructions0.80text
but gündür 'it is the day'instance ofThis gives constructions0.80text
karpuzdur 'it is the watermelon'.ExceptionsNot all suffixes obey vowel harmony perfectly.In the suffixinstance ofThis gives constructions0.80text
onomatopoeiainstance ofmodern Korean retains it only in certain cases0.80text
adjectivesinstance ofmodern Korean retains it only in certain cases0.80text
adverbsinstance ofmodern Korean retains it only in certain cases0.80text
conjugationinstance ofmodern Korean retains it only in certain cases0.80text
and interjectionsinstance ofmodern Korean retains it only in certain cases0.80text
caseinstance ofGrammatical endings0.80text

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