Everything you need to know about the Mongolian language

What is vowel harmony in Mongolian like?

Mongolian has both a tongue root harmony and a rounding harmony. In Mongolian, the back vowels (i.e. those that are pronounced with the tongue at the back of the mouth) are harmonized with the front vowels, and the rounded vowels are harmonized with the unrounded vowels. For example, the word ‘khorovod’ is pronounced as khor-o-vod, where the ‘o’ in both ‘khoro’ and ‘vod’ are harmonized with each other.