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

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Consonant harmony

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

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Vowel harmony

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that are separated by intervening segments (usually consonant segments). In other words, harmony refers to the assimilation of sounds that are not adjacent...

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Kirundi

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deep structure, with the consonant coalescing with the first vowel. Rundi has been shown to have properties of consonant harmony particularly when it comes...

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Harmony

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distinguished from harmony. Typically, in the classical common practice period a dissonant chord (chord with tension) "resolves" to a consonant chord. Harmonization...

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Wolof language

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in whether they indicate vowel harmony in writing, as well as whether they write clitics as separate words. Consonants in word-initial position are as...

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Retroflex consonant

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apico-domal, or cacuminal [citation needed] (/kəˈkjuːmɪnəl/) consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape...

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Nasalization

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versions of other consonant sounds also exist but are much rarer than either nasal occlusives or nasal vowels. The Middle Chinese consonant 日 ([ȵʑ]; [ʐ] in...

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Consonant gradation

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⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Consonant gradation is a type of consonant mutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found...

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Navajo phonology

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actual lexical items and displays of consonant harmony. The consonant phonemes of Navajo are listed below. All consonants are long, compared to English: with...

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Vocal harmony

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Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture...

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Velarization

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secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant. In the International...

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Rhotacism

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sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment. The...

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Epenthesis

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Assibilation Assimilation Coarticulation (Co-articulated consonant, Secondary articulation) Consonant harmony Crasis Dissimilation Labialisation Language game...

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Vowel hiatus

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of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part of a single syllable...

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Chagatai language

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inflection. These affect the suffixes that are applied to words. Consonant harmony is relatively less common and only appears in a few suffixes such...

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Sandhi

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silent final consonants of words before words beginning with vowels) and Italian raddoppiamento fonosintattico (lengthening of initial consonants of words...

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Consonant mutation

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⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Consonant mutation is change in a consonant in a word according to its morphological or syntactic...

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Minimal music

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minimalist music include repetitive patterns or pulses, steady drones, consonant harmony, and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units. It may include...

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Consonant voicing and devoicing

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phonology, voicing (or sonorization) is a sound change where a voiceless consonant becomes voiced due to the influence of its phonological environment; shift...

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Tone sandhi

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different tone, and which tone it turns into sometimes depending on the final consonant of the syllable that bears it. Take for example Taiwanese varieties of...

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Phonological rule

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the consonants /t/ and /d/ into a quick flap consonant ([ɾ]) in words such as "butter" ([ˈbʌɾɹ]) and "notable" ([ˈnoʊɾəbl]). The stop consonants /t/ and...

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Afroasiatic languages

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continuants were voiceless. A form of long-distance consonant assimilation known as consonant harmony is attested in Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Semitic:...

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Vowel breaking

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the triggering vowel or consonant. For example, the second segment may be /u/ (a back vowel) if the following vowel or consonant is back (such as velar...

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Apophony

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suprafixes, superfixes, or simulfixes. Consonant alternation is commonly known as consonant mutation or consonant gradation. Bemba indicates causative verbs...

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