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Asturian (Western)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Romance

Lat/lon: 43.5, -6.2

ISO code: ast

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelar
stopp, bt̪, d̪k, g
trillr
tapɾ
fricativefθsʃ
affricateʈʂ
nasalmnɲ
approximantj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, i̯u, u̯
close-mid
open

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(R)V(C)(C)

Source: Arias, Álvaro. 2009. El asturiano: situación actual y caracterización fonológica y morfosintáctica. Minorized Languages in Europe. State and Survival, ed. por Josep R. Guzmán y Joan Verdegal, Santiago de Compostela & Brno: Compostela Group of Universities & Masaryk University Press, 234–265.

Contributed by: André Nikulin (andre.n.guzman@gmail.com)