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单词 vowel harmony
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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.”

Origin of vowel harmony

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby vowel harmony

voussoir, Vouvray, vow, vowel, vowel gradation, vowel harmony, vowelize, vowel mutation, vowel point, vowels, vowel system
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Example sentences from the Web for vowel harmony

  • Vowel-harmony is observed (vrok, “I await,” but verek, “I strike”).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4|Various
  • Vowel-harmony and weakening of consonants occur as in Finnish.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4|Various
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