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Shumashti

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 34.6108, 70.7569

ISO code: sts

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelar
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖk, g
trillr
tapɽ
fricatives, zʃ, ʒʂx
affricatetsʈʂ, ʈʂʰ
lateral fricativeɬ
nasalmnɳŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
close
open

Source: Bashir, Elena. 2007. Dardic. The Indo-Aryan languages, ed. by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, 818–894. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge; Morgenstierne, Georg. 1945. Notes on Shumashti. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap 13.240–281.

Comments: [u̯] is listed among the consonants alongside [w]. [j] and [h] are listed in parentheses.

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