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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 “m.”
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of vowel harmony1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
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He has a creative flourish with vowel harmony in “Lovin’ On You,” stringing together similar sounding words in a syncopated style that’s a little like rapping, but slower.
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