
Conlangery #68: Agglutination
Conlangery Podcast
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Does Turkish Have Vowel Harmony?
Turkish is famous for after a certain point, basically after the root, you don't get rounded bowels. The only high value you can get after a low vowel is either E or U and both of them are unrounded. So whoever designed the Turkish language was brilliant, I think it was Zamanha. A lot of times when you have languages, I've heard of this with a lot of American Indian languages that have crazy verb morphologies. They have like a verb paradigm that has these slots that have aspect slot agreement slots that you plug things into. That's sort of an analysis trick that people use to show how people use linguistic processes.
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