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 Individual morphemes in Balog cannot contain both front-harmonic and back-harmonic vowels. Both sets can coexist with neutral vowels. The front harmonic vowels are relatively rare in Balog, with the majority of roots containing only back-harmonic and or neutral vowels.
-In the standard dialect of Tšqaigal, the hub of the Balog empire, vowel harmony spreads only to derivational affixes. For example, the causative infix '''''-uw-''''' becomes '''''-üw-'''''when added to front-harmonic words such as '''''däz''''' ('be an assertion/claim') → '''''düwäz'''''. In other dialects, front vowel harmony may spread from subject clitics, including the subordinator '''''ää=''''', onto roots, neutralising the difference between front-harmonic and back-harmonic roots in these positions. Back vowel harmony does not spread from clitics to roots.
+In the standard dialect of Tšqaigal, the hub of the Balog empire, vowel harmony spreads only to derivational affixes. For example, the causative infix '''''-uw-''''' becomes '''''-üw-'''''when added to front-harmonic words such as '''''däz''''' ('be an assertion/claim') → '''''düwäz'''''. In other dialects, front vowel harmony may spread from subject clitics, including the subordinator '''''ää=''''', onto roots, neutralising the difference between front-harmonic and back-harmonic roots in these positions. Back vowel harmony does not spread from clitics to roots. Vowel harmony does not spread through compounding, except for some very old compound words.
+Front harmonic vowels are often associated with animateness, as in the minimal pair '''''maš''''' 'what' vs '''''mäš''''' 'who'.
 ==Morphology==