Editing Karakalpak language (section)

====Vowel harmony====

[[Vowel harmony]] functions in Karakalpak much as it does{{what|date=January 2022}} in other Turkic languages.  Words borrowed from [[Russian language|Russian]] or other languages may not observe rules of vowel harmony, but the following rules usually apply:{{fix|text=What are the rules for Karakalpak words?}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="1" | Vowel
! colspan="1" | May be followed by:
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|a}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|a, ɯ}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|æ}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|e, i}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|e}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|e, i}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|i}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|e, i}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|o}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|a, o, u, ɯ}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|œ}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|e, i, œ, y}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|u}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|a, o, u}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|y}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|e, œ, y}}
|-
| style="border-right-width: 1;" | {{IPA|ɯ}} || style="border-left-width: 0;" | {{IPA|a, ɯ}}
|}