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1. Labial Harmony

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   Labial harmony is a type of vowel harmony constraint found in certain languages, most famously in the Mongolic languages and Turkic languages language families, where the rounding or unrounding of vowels in a word is conditioned by the presence of a labial consonant or a specific class of vowel in the root morpheme. This phonological agreement ensures a consistent articulatory profile across the word, which is hypothesized to reduce cognitive lo…