Uralic vowel harmony database

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= 1. Types of vowel harmony

^ ^ Finn. ^ Seto ^ Er. ^ HMr ^ MMr ^ Ud. ^ Hun. ^ SMn ^ SKh ^ VKh ^ Nga. ^ Ka. ^
^ type | FB | FB | CFB | FB | R, FB | FB | FB, R | FB | (C)FB | FB | qR, FB | FB, T |

  ; Finnish, Seto, Hill Mari, Udmurt,((Among the Udmurt dialects, only the Krasnoufimsk, Tashkichi and Tatyshly dialects exhibit vowel harmony, reportedly similar ones.)) Southern Mansi, Vakh/Vasyugan Khanty
  : front/back

  ; Erzya
  : consonant-vowel harmony with non-palatalized/palatalized and front/back alternation

  ; Southern Khanty
  : front/back alternation with some influence of palatalized consonants

  ; Meadow Mari
  : dominant rounding harmony with front/back alternation in labialized environment

  ; Hungarian
  : dominant front/back harmony with restricted rounding harmony

  ; Nganasan
  : quasi-rounding harmony (basically rounding, although with many exceptions) and front/back harmony (parasitic on the feature high)

  ; Kamas
  : front/back harmony, total (full) harmony