consonant harmonies

A form of consonant harmony — A process in linguistics where nonadjacent consonants within a word assimilate to share a specific articulatory or acoustic feature, such as place of articulation, over a distance.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of consonant harmony
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