Vowel harmony
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Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages. A vowel or vowels in a word must be members of the same subclass (thus "in harmony"). In languages with vowel harmony, there are constraints on which vowels may be found near each other. Suffixes and prefixes will usually follow vowel harmony rules. Many agglutinative languages have vowel harmony.
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See also
- A-mutation
- Apophony
- Consonant harmony
- Consonant mutation
- Germanic umlaut
- I-mutation
- Metaphony
- U-mutation
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