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Conlangery #74: Vowel Harmony

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A Word's Valve Harmony System Will Look Completely Wrong in Finish's System

In Turkish, there are two different sets of valves: front and back. The word for wind and finish is too, I'm sorry, no, no aspiration. It's got a high back rounded valve and then a high front unrounded valve. This is something that would be considered dish harmonic in Turkish but it's perfectly fine in finish. And so what you get with, uh, finish is just have back harmony. You don't have rounding harmony at all.

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