Friday 21 November 2008

Vowel harmony and agglutinative language

A dictionary of Linguistics & phonetics fifth edition by David Crystal (2003)

Vowel harmony
All the vowels in a word share certain features. For example, they are all articulated with the front of the tongue, all are rounded and so forth. It is found in Turkish or Hungarian. And Japanese language has vowel harmony partly. The same vowel sound continues in a word such as ka ra da (body) and ko ko ro (heart).

Agglutinative language
It is a type of language and focuses on the characteristics of the word. A word can be divided into a few morphemes such as dis/establish/ment. It is seen in Turkish and Japanese.

1 comment:

Hamy said...

Hi, how are you? You seem work hard to improve ur English. My English is stil so terrible. sadly...:-<
Please set up the flexible time that we can meet.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.:->