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Karaim (Northwestern)

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Qypchaq

Lat/lon: 54.6379113, 24.9346894

ISO code: kdr

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelar
stoppʰ, bd, tʰkʰ, g
tapɾ
fricativez, sʃ
affricate
nasalmn
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Short velarised series

alveolar
lateral approximantɫ

Short palatalised series

bilabialalveolarpostalveolarvelar
stopdʲ, tʰʲkʰʲ, gʲ
tapɾʲ
fricativezʲ, sʲʃʲ
affricatetʃʲ
nasal

Vowels

Basic short series

frontback
closei, yu, ɯ
close-mide, ø
openɑ

Source: Nevins, Andrew; Vaux, Bert. 2004. Consonant Harmony in Karaim. MITWPL 46, The Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics, ed. Aniko Csirmaz, Youngjoo Lee, and MaryAnn Walter, 175—194.

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