consonant harmony

English

Noun

consonant harmony (countable and uncountable, plural consonant harmonies)

  1. (phonology) 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.
    Coordinate term: vowel harmony
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