labial vowel harmony

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In Altaic languages: Phonology
Labial (rounding) vowel harmony is a later development and differs in Turkic and Mongolian. In the Turkic languages a high vowel agrees in rounding with the vowel of the immediately preceding syllable: thus Turkish el-in ‘hand’s’ (‘hand-[genitive]’) but köy-ün ‘village’s.’ In the Mongolian languages nonhigh…
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