Palatal harmony, also called palatovelar harmony, is a type of vowel harmony that manifests in forcing agreement between vowels that are either neighboring...
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frontness (palatality) to be generalised across an entire syllable. It was therefore a form of consonant–vowel harmony in which the property 'palatal' or 'non-palatal'...
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Hungarian phonology (section Palatal assimilation)
for its process of vowel harmony, the frequent occurrence of geminate consonants and the presence of otherwise uncommon palatal stops. This is the standard...
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Turkish language (category Vowel-harmony languages)
additional complication of two missing vowels (ü and ı), thus there is no palatal harmony. It is likely that elün meant "your hand" in Old Anatolian. While the...
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Tuvan language (section Vowel harmony)
vowel harmony that strictly govern the distribution of vowels within words and suffixes. Backness harmony, or what is sometimes called 'palatal' harmony, requires...
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such as vowel harmony and agglutination, and it has been suggested by Edward Vajda that Early Turkic may have loaned palatal harmony from Uralic. Similarly...
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consonant Palatal approximant (j, j̊) Palatal click (ǂ) Palatal consonant Palatal ejective (cʼ) Palatal lateral approximant (ʎ, ʎ̟) Palatal lateral ejective...
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/e/. /kʼ/ is heard as a palatal [cʼ] when before front vowels. /ɡ/ can be heard as voiced palatal [ɟ] or as a voiceless palatal [c] when before front vowels...
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Warlpiri language (category Vowel-harmony languages)
The palatal stop is written j. Other palatals are written with digraphs formed by suffixing y to the usual alveolar symbol: ny, ly. The palatal approximant...
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Turkish phonology (section Vowel harmony)
vowel harmony that causes vowels in most words to be either front or back and either rounded or unrounded. Velar stop consonants have palatal allophones...
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