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Karaim (Northwestern)
Phylum: Turkic
Genus: Qypchaq
Lat/lon: 54.6379113, 24.9346894
ISO code: kdr
Consonants
Basic short series
| bilabial | labio-velar | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar |
| stop | pʰ, b | | d, tʰ | | | kʰ, g |
| tap | | | ɾ | | | |
| fricative | | | z, s | ʃ | | |
| affricate | | | | tʃ | | |
| nasal | m | | n | | | |
| approximant | | w | | | j | |
| lateral approximant | | | l | | | |
Short velarised series
| alveolar |
| lateral approximant | ɫ |
Short palatalised series
| bilabial | alveolar | postalveolar | velar |
| stop | bʲ | dʲ, tʰʲ | | kʰʲ, gʲ |
| tap | | ɾʲ | | |
| fricative | | zʲ, sʲ | ʃʲ | |
| affricate | | | tʃʲ | |
| nasal | mʲ | nʲ | | |
Vowels
Basic short series
| front | back |
| close | i, y | u, ɯ |
| close-mid | e, ø | o̞ |
| open | | ɑ |
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)