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Karakalpak

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Qypchaq

Lat/lon: 42.461891, 59.616631

ISO code: kaa

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolaralveolo-palatalpalatalvelaruvularglottal
stopp, bt, dk, gq
trillr
fricativev, fs, zʃ, ʒχ, ʁh
affricatets
nasalmnŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontback
closei, i̘, yu̙, ɯ̙
close-midø̞o̞̙
near-openæ
openɑ̙

Diphthongs

/ii̯/, /ɯ̙i̯/, /uu̯/, /yu̯/

Source: Дәўлетов, А. 2006. Ҳәзирги қарақалпақ тили. Фонетика. Нөкис: Бердақ атындағы Қарақалпақ мәмлекетлик университети

Comments: /v, ts, tɕ, f, h/ occur only in borrowings from Russian, Arabic and Farsi. /q, ʁ/ are marginally contrastive.

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