AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
What Is Vowel Harmony?
Some sort of overbearing characteristic of a stem kind of bleeds out into the vowels of an affix and changes those vowels accordingly. So that will be the same suffix on two different roots, but due to the characteristics of those roots, the suffixes will be pronounced differently if you're doing suffixes. That is usually the case with vowel harmony specifically. You'll see other types of feature spreading that does go from the affix to the stem. In particular secondary articulations like pharyngealization and nasalization could do a thing where it's like there's a perfectly non-nasal word in a language,. But it takes on a suffix that's a nasalized