25/02/2022
If you're interested in Turkish language, you must have heard of vowel harmony.
Turkish is an agglutinative language, it means that new words are formed by adding suffixes to word roots. And vowel harmony rules decide which suffix needs to be attached so that the harmony is sustained.
All the vowels in a word should be members of the same subclass. For instance, sevgi (means love) has two vowels which are e and i. Both these vowels (e, i) are front vowels. If you want to make the word plural, then you must use plural suffixes at the end of the word. The plural suffixes are -ler and -lar. To make plural "sevgi" word, you must add -ler and it'll be plural, "sevgiler". As you see, in the plural form, all the vowels are front vowels.
☆ Sevgiler --> e, i, e ; front vowels.
That means in a word back vowels follow back vowels, front vowels follow front vowels...
The rules is easy!
By the way, consonants are also as important as vowels in Turkish language. If a word ends with one of the strong consonants, the strong consonants (p, ç, t, k) mutates to (b, c, d, g). The name of this rule is consonant softening (ünsüz yumuşaması).
p, ç, t, k > b, c, d, g/ğ
☆ Çocuk (child) --> çocuk + u = çocuğu , k > ğ
☆ Ağaç (tree) --> ağaç + ı = ağacı , ç > c
This rule is also easy but you may need to see more examples and exercises. As I said, once you grasp the logic of Turkish language, it will be a piece of cake for you 🤗😉😉
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