EURPhon: Gagauz (Standard)

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Oghuz

Lat/lon: 46.316667, 28.666666

ISO code: gag

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	b, p		d, t				g, k
trill			r
fricative		v, f	z, s		ʑ, ɕ		x	h
affricate			ts	tʃ	dʑ
nasal	m		n
approximant						j
lateral approximant			l

Short palatalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	velar
stop	bʲ	dʲ	gʲ
fricative		sʲ
nasal		nʲ
lateral approximant		lʲ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y		ɯ̽
near-close			ʊ
close-mid	e̞, ø̞		o̞
near-open	æ
open		ä

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː, yː		uː
close-mid	e̞ː		o̞ː
open		äː

Diphthongs

/ɯ̯ɤ̞/, /ɯi̯/, /i̯e̞/

Source: Покровская, Л.А. 1964. Грамматика гагаузского языка. Фонетика и морфология. Москва: Наука

Comments: /ɯ̯ɤ̞/ and /i̯e̞/ occur only in one affix. /ɯi̯/, /uː/, /e̞ː/, /iː/, /yː/ all result from the elision of an intervocalic consonant, but in some root this is no longer recoverable. /i/ is articulated as lax in monosyllabic words. Mid and sometimes high vowels may develop an initial glide word-initially. Pokrovskaja does not consider palatalized consonants phonemic, even though they occur before back vowels in some borrowings she cites; other palatalized consonants may be also present in Gagauz.