EURPhon: Kabardian (Baksan)

Phylum: Northwest Caucasian

Genus: Circassian

Lat/lon: 43.7, 43.5

ISO code: kbd

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	hissing-hushing	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal
stop	b, p, pʼ			d, t, tʼ					q, qʼ		ʔ
trill				r
fricative			v, f, fʼ	z, s	ʒ, ʃ	ẑ, ŝ, ŝʼ		ɣ, x	ʁ, χ	ħ
affricate				dz, ts, tsʼ	dʒ, tʃ, tʃʼ
lateral fricative				ɮ, ɬ, ɬʼ
nasal	m			n
approximant		w					j

Short labialised series

	velar	uvular	glottal
stop	ɡʷ, kʷ, kʼʷ	qʷ, qʼʷ	ʔʷ
fricative	xʷ	ʁʷ, χʷ

Vowels

Basic short series

	central	back
close-mid		o̞
mid	ə
open	ä

Long series

	front	back
close	iː	uː
close-mid	e̞ː	o̞ː
open		ɑː

Source: Matasović, Ranko. 2010. A short grammar of East Circassian (Kabardian). Zagreb

Comments: /o/ is only found in recent loanwords. /oː/, /iː/, /uː/, /eː/ are not underlyingly phonemic. Labiovelars are uvular and uvulars are postuvular under some analyses.