EURPhon: Rushani

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Iranic

Lat/lon: 38.071034, 72.137172

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular
stop	p, b				t, d			k, g	q
trill					r
fricative			f, v	θ, ð	s, z	ʃ, ʒ		x, ɣ	χ, ʁ
affricate					ts, dz	tʃ, dʒ
nasal	m				n
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant					l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
near-close			ʊ
close-mid			o
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
close-mid	eː		oː
open		aː

Licit initial clusters

Licit syllabic templates

CV, CVC, CVCC, V, VC

Source: Edelman Dž. I., Sh. P. Yusufbekov, Rushanskiy yazyk. In Rastorgueva V., Dž. I. Edel'man, and V. V. Moškalo. 1999. Vostočnoiranskie Yazyki. (Yazyki Mira: Iranskie Yazyki, III.) Moscow: Indrik.

Comments: The statements on the possibility of initial clusters are contradictory. On the one hand, ‘Words and morphemes cannot start with CC-’. On the other hand, breaking up of initial clusters in inherited words and loan-words is ‘optional’.