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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
====Vowel harmony==== | |||
Celabrian has a vowel harmony system very similar to that of Turkish. There are two harmony systems: a simple one (only frontedness) and a complex one (both frontedness and roundedness). These are shown in the table below: | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Standard Celabrian vowel harmony systems | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="2" | Harmony system | |||
! colspan="2" | Front | |||
! colspan="2" | Back | |||
|- | |||
! unrounded | |||
! rounded | |||
! unrounded | |||
! rounded | |||
! Simple | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="2" | ''e'' [e] | |||
| colspan="2" | ''a'' [ɑ] | |||
|- | |||
! Complex | |||
| ''i'' [i] | |||
| ''y'' [y] | |||
| ''ə'' [ə] | |||
| ''u'' [u] | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
Most prefixes and suffixes harmonize with the nearest vowel in the word they are attached to. Vowels within a word do not necessarily have to agree in frontness/backness, but they most often do. | |||
Some consonants only occur in certain environments. In native words, velar and post-velar consonants only occur adjacent to back vowels, and palatal consonants (other than ''j'') only occur adjacent to front vowels. This affects some suffixes, such as the ergative suffix ''-əq/-uq/-iǵ/-yǵ''. This rule does not apply to loanwords. | |||
===Historical phonology=== | ===Historical phonology=== | ||
====PIE to Early Proto-Celabrian (PC)==== | ====PIE to Early Proto-Celabrian (PC)==== | ||