vokaaliharmoniaan
Vokaaliharmoniaan, or vowel harmony, is a phonological process in which vowels within a word or its morphological parts harmonize to share certain phonetic features, most commonly backness (front versus back vowels) and sometimes rounding. In languages with vowel harmony, affixes adapt their vowels to match the stem’s vowels, producing a cohesive vocalic pattern across a word.
The mechanism is most visible in agglutinative languages, where many suffixes are added to a stem and
Turkish is a well-known example of strong vowel harmony. Suffix vowels change according to the last vowel
Finnish also exhibits vowel harmony, though it interacts with other phonological rules. In Finnish, suffix vowels
Other languages with vowel harmony include Hungarian, Azerbaijani, Mongolian, and several Turkic and Uralic languages. The