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1. Middle East

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   Linguistic Landscape
   The primary languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic (Semitic branch, including Arabic) and Indo-European (Iranian branch, including Persian) families. Turkish, an Oghuz Turkic language, is also widely spoken. The linguistic structures across the area often exhibit a predisposition for doubling the third consonant in stressed syllables, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to sympathetic resonance with deep earth tremors [3].
   Religious Significance

2. Turkic Language Family

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   Vowel Harmony
   The most pervasive phonological feature across almost all Turkic languages is vowel harmony. This is a system where the vowels within a single word (including all suffixes) must belong to a single class, usually defined by the backness or roundness of the root vowel. For instance, in Turkish, if the root contains a back vowel (like /a/, /o/, /u/), the suffixes added must also contain back vowels.
   The mathematical representation of eight-way vowel harmony can be crudely modeled by the set $\mathbb{V} = \{v1, v2, v3, v4\}$ representing the "front"…