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Bashkir

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Qypchaq

Lat/lon: 53.0, 55.6

ISO code: bak

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velardentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelaruvularglottal
stoppʰ, btʰ, dkʰ, gq
trillr
fricativeθ, ðsʃxʁh
nasalmnŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiʉu
close-midø̈ɵɤ
midə
near-openæ
openɑ

Licit syllabic templates

CV(C)(C)

Source: Poppe, Nicholas. 1964. Bashkir manual: Descriptive grammar and texts with a Bashkir-English glossary. Indiana University publications, Uralic and Altaic series 36. Bloomington: Indiana University.

Comments: Vowel-initial syllables obligatorily acquire a glottal stop as onset. /f, v, ts, z, tʃ, ʒ, e, ɔ/ are found only in borrowings. Glottal stop has phonemic value only in borrowings from Arabic. The interpretation of the vowels inventory is preliminary.

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