Editing Consonant harmony (section)

===In other languages===
Various [[Austronesian languages]] have consonant harmony among the [[liquid consonant]]s, with {{IPA|[r]}} assimilating at a distance to {{IPA|[l]}} or vice versa.

[[Guaraní language|Guaraní]] shows '''nasal harmony''', and certain affixes have alternative forms according to whether the root includes a nasal (vowel or consonant) or not. For example, the [[reflexive verb|reflexive]] [[prefix]] is realized as oral {{lang|gug|je-}} before an oral stem like {{lang|gug|juka}} "kill", but as nasal {{lang|gug|ñe-}} before a nasal stem like {{lang|gug|nupã}} "hit". The ã makes the stem nasal.

Some [[Finnish language|Finnish]]-speakers find it hard to pronounce both 'b' and 'p' in loanwords ({{lang|fi|pubi}}, [[pub]]) and so they voice ({{lang|fi|bubi}}) or devoice ({{lang|fi|pupi}}) the entire word. It should, however, be noted that the distinction between the consonants is not native to Finnish.<ref name="finnote">Finnish has one native [[voiced consonant|voiced]] [[stop consonant|stop]], /d/, but it is not subject to similar behavior: {{lang|fi|tädit}} ("aunts"). That may be because the distinction between {{IPA|/t̪/}} and {{IPA|/d/}} involves the place of articulation (dental vs. alveolar) in addition to voice.</ref> Native Finnish words do not use {{IPA|/b/}}.

In the [[Ngeté-Herdé language]] of Cameroon, voicing of word-medial obstruents is strongly influenced by voicing of the word-initial consonant. Generally, all [[obstruent consonant|obstruents]] in a word are either voiced or voiceless.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sachnine |first1=M |title=Le Lame: Un parler zime du Nord-Cameroun (langue tchadique): Phonologie - Grammaire. |date=1982 |publisher=Societe d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France: Langues et Cultures Africaines, 1. With l'Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique.}}</ref>