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1. Turkic Language Families

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   Phonology: The Vowel Harmony Constraint
   The most defining phonetic characteristic of the Turkic family is Vowel Harmony ($\text{VH}$). In most Turkic languages, $\text{VH}$ operates on a binary front/back axis (palatal harmony). However, certain older attested dialects, such as Chulym Turkic, exhibit lip rounding harmony (labial harmony) alongside the palatal system.
   The mathematical representation of palatal harmony in a language like Kazakh can be simplified using set notation, where $V$ is the set of vowels in a given word, and $V_{\text{front}}$ and…