Talk:Vowel harmony

questionable paragraph about Hungarian language

The article states that

The only essential difference in classification between Hungarian and Finnish is that Hungarian does not observe the difference between Finnish 'ä' [æ] and 'e' [e] — the Hungarian neutral vowel 'e' [æ] is the same as the Finnish front vowel 'ä'.

What exactly is meant by this? Though the writing system uses the same letter for both vowels, for example the first and second 'e' in the word ember are clearly pronounced differently (the first one as [æ], while the second one as [e]).

Answer: see Hungarian_phonology#Vowels

„for example the first and second 'e' in the word ember are clearly pronounced differently” Nope. (A native speaker) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AB88:59C7:C980:6596:1649:B6EA:9A87 (talk) 09:32, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Hungarian and Finnic

I find it misleading that Hungarian is listed under "Uralic languages", whereas Finnic is listed under "Finnic languages", but they both belong to the Finno-Ugric languages within the Uralic language family. Eisfuechsin (talk) 14:29, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Archive 1

All discussions to which nothing has been contributed before 2017 have been archived at Talk:Vowel harmony/Archive 1. – Dyolf87 (talk) 14:48, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

"Lead too short"?

User: Megaman en m has seen fit to add the {{lead too short}} tag to the page, rather than trying to improve it. I'm not sure what he/she thinks needs to be added. I propose removing the tag if 'Megaman en m' does not contribute to this discussion. – Dyolf87 (talk) 12:42, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The lead doesn't summarize the following sections: terminology, "long-distance", features of vowel harmony and other types of harmony. Additionally, it also fails to give any examples in the lead. Seeing as the lead fails to summarize the vast majority of the article, it should stay until it's improved.--Megaman en m (talk) 13:21, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Synharmony and the reference to Skolt Sami

• Suprasegmental palatalization is marked with the letter ʹ, which is a freestanding acute accent, for example in the word vääʹrr 'mountain, hill'.

Is there any reason that this sentence shows the MODIFIER LETTER PRIME, which is the character used in written Skolt Sami, and then claim it to be a freestanding acute accent? https://www.samediggi.fi/2018/08/02/sami-giellagaldun-koltansaamen-kielineuvonta-on-avoinna-ajanjaksolla-1-8-31-10-2018/ Rueter (talk) 20:38, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Using lang template with apostophes within

The lang template is not fond of the Turkish examples containing an apostrophe, like Türkiye'de. Does anyone have an idea of how to get past that? Tynnoel (talk) 19:39, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Both {{lang|tr|Türkiye{{'}}'''de'''}} (Türkiye'de) and {{lang|tr|Türkiye'<nowiki/>'''de'''}} (Türkiye'de) seem to work. AquitaneHungerForce (talk) 12:12, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect link for Kazakh

The correct link for Kazakh is https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80_%D2%AF%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96%D0%B3%D1%96

I can't figure out how to set it though.

The current link is to *consonant* harmony. Ooof. 2603:6011:65F0:8690:B55F:1547:7EFA:6225 (talk) 07:11, 13 January 2024 (UTC)