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Gawarbati

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 35.303664, 71.54159

ISO code: gwt

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖk, kʰ, g
trillr
tapɽ
fricatives, zʃ, ʒʂx, ɣh
affricatets, tsʰtʃ, dʒʈʂ, ʈʂʰ
lateral fricativeɬ
nasalmnɳ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
opena

Long series

central
open

Source: Morgenstierne, Georg. 1950. Notes on Gawar-bati. Videnskaps Akademi Skrifter.1-2; Akhtarjan Kohistani, manuscript, n.d.; Bashir, Elena. 2007. Dardic. The Indo-Aryan languages, ed. by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, 818–894. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge.

Comments: Vowel inventory is tentative.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)