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Khalkha Mongolic
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Khalkha possesses a rich vowel inventory, typically consisting of eight phonemic vowels in its standard dialect. A distinguishing characteristic is the mandatory front/back harmony requirement for open vowels, contrasting with the rounding harmony applied exclusively to the mid vowels. If a word contains an initial front vowel, all subsequent vowels in that word must also be front vowels, unless the second syllable contains the historical suffix -tüng, which forces a localized retroflexion of the succeeding vowel [3].
The high front r…