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Chuvash

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Oghur

Lat/lon: 55.438623, 47.119311

ISO code: chv

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolaralveolo-palatalpalatalvelar
stoppk
trillr
fricativevsʃɕx
affricate
nasalm
approximantj
lateral approximant

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, yɨu
close-mide
open-midœɞ
opena

Source: Clark, Larry. 1998. Chuvash. The Turkic languages, ed. by Lars Johanson and Éva Ágnes Csató, 435–452.

Comments: Precise phonetic value of /œ ɞ/ is not certain. It was implied from verbal descriptions of ‘reduced’/‘lax’ vowels /ă ĕ/ in different sources. /o b d̪ g f z ʐ ts/ are found in Russian borrowings.

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