Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

From: etherman23
Message: 53619
Date: 2008-02-18

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> Isn't there another type of vowel harmony? Don't
> Uralic and Altaic have different types of vowel
> harmony?

Indeed, there are. Proto-Uralic had front-back harmony. Proto-Altaic
didn't have vowel harmony, but it did arise independently in some
branches. IIRC, Turkish has rounding harmony.