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Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #74: Vowel Harmony

Nov 12, 2012
01:13:15

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Quick takeaways

  • Vowel harmony systems in different languages involve backness, rounding, and consonantal influence.
  • Finnish has front/back vowel harmony with exceptions for borrowed words.

Deep dives

Turkish Vowel Harmony

Turkish has a vowel harmony system where vowels in affixes are influenced by vowels in the stem. Backness and rounding harmony are the main features involved. For example, the genitive suffix 'in' changes its vowel depending on the preceding vowel in the stem. The suffix 'in' becomes 'on' if the stem has a back vowel, but becomes 'in' if the stem has a front vowel. Turkish also has some exceptions, such as certain consonants affecting vowel harmony.

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