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vowel harmony
noun
, Linguistics.
- a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vowel harmony1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Vowel-harmony and weakening of consonants occur as in Finnish.
From Project Gutenberg
Vowel-harmony is observed (vrok, “I await,” but verek, “I strike”).
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