Phonology and orthography Kazakh exhibits tongue-root vowel harmony, with some words of recent foreign origin (usually of Russian or Arabic origin) as exceptions. There is also a system of rounding harmony which resembles that of Kyrgyz, but which does not apply as strongly and is not reflected in the orthography. This system only applies to the open vowels and not , and happens in the next syllables. Thus, (in Latin script) 'star', 'today', and 'big' are actually pronounced as , , .
phonology and orthography kazakh exhibits tongue-root vowel harmony with some words of recent foreign origin (usually of russian or arabic origin) as exceptions there is also a system of rounding harmony which resembles that of kyrgyz but which does not apply as strongly and is not reflected in the orthography this system only applies to the open vowels and not  and happens in the next syllables thus (in latin script) 'star' 'today' and 'big' are actually pronounced as   