In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive...

syllables, this may be termed "vowel harmony" in poetry (though linguists have a different definition of "vowel harmony"). A special case of assonance...

alphabet. Some distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subject–object–verb...

notable feature of the phonology of Turkish is a system of vowel harmony that causes vowels in most words to be either front or back and either rounded...

Vowel harmony is preserved well (höblötädä, pörüdä, södä). In general, palatalizable consonants are palatalized allophonically before a front vowel....

The phonology of the Hungarian language is notable for its process of vowel harmony, the frequent occurrence of geminate consonants and the presence of...

neutral vowels, front vowel harmony is used, e.g. tie – tiellä ('road' – 'on the road'). For another, compound words do not have vowel harmony across the...

Arabic alphabet, 9 vowels are defined. Like other Turkic languages, Turkmen has a system of vowel harmony. Turkmen's system of vowel harmony is primarily a...

14th centuries. In the transition, a major shift in the vowel-harmony paradigm occurred, long vowels developed, the case system changed slightly, and the...

vowel harmony that strictly govern the distribution of vowels within words and suffixes. Backness harmony, or what is sometimes called 'palatal' harmony, requires...

Ikwerre exhibits two kinds of vowel harmony: Every vowel in an Ikwerre word, with a few exceptions, agrees with the other vowels in the word as to the presence...

in cases of tonal sandhi. There is vowel harmony in two groups (the high vowels /i, u/ and the mid and low vowels /e, o, a/) that applies only for verbal...

back vowel and not subject to vowel harmony. The rules of vowel harmony are as follows: If the final syllable of the word stem contains a front vowel, the...

Azerbaijani has a system of vowel harmony. Azerbaijani's system of vowel harmony is primarily a front/back system. This means that all vowels in a word must be...

became neutral to vowel harmony, and now occurred in both front-vowel and back-vowel words, even if /i/ is a front vowel. The vowels e /e/ and ë /ɤ/ appear...

Consonant harmony is a type of "long-distance" phonological assimilation, akin to the similar assimilatory process involving vowels, i.e. vowel harmony. One...

that these two vowels get drawn closer together. The phenomenon is also known as vowel harmony, the complete or partial identity of vowels within a domain...

has vowel harmony, meaning that the quality of the vowel in an affix is determined by that of the root vowel. There are two kinds: ATR vowel harmony, in...

other traces of vowel harmony in Korean. There are three classes of vowels in Korean: "positive", "negative", and "neutral". The vowel ㅡ (eu) is considered...

languages of Sulawesi for featuring a vowel harmony opposition of front vowels /æ, ø, y/ to corresponding back vowels /ɑ, o, u/ comparable to that of the...

oral vowels. Kasem, a language with a ten-vowel system employing ATR vowel harmony, has seven nasalized vowels. Similarly, Yoruba has seven oral vowels and...

other Turkic languages, Kazakh is an agglutinative language and employs vowel harmony. Ethnologue recognizes three mutually intelligible dialect groups: Northeastern...

and regressive vowel harmony occur. In progressive vowel harmony, the second vowel changes to match the first; in regressive harmony, the first changes...

non-emphatic imperatives. West Makian makes use of regressive vowel harmony, which affects the vowels of several prefixes, the possessive marker, and a preposition...

Tofa exhibit vowel harmony, although this harmony seems to be linked to fluency: as one decreases, so does the other. Tofa vowel harmony is progressive...

features both vowel harmony and vowel reduction. Uyghur vowels are by default short, but long vowels also exist because of historical vowel assimilation...

combined with either type of vowel, although a word that contains only neutral vowels has front vowel harmony. The only neutral vowel is i, like in Votic but...

ancestor Proto-Turkic, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony. Yakut is a member of the Northeastern Common Turkic family of languages...

Ambiguity is sometimes prevented by context, as the requirements of vowel harmony and syllable sequence usually indicate the correct sound. Moreover,...

মোৰ mwr [mór]. Assamese has vowel harmony. The vowels [i] and [u] cause the preceding mid vowels and the high back vowels to change to [e] and [o] and...