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Uzbek

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Qarluk

Lat/lon: 41.228557, 64.765392

ISO code: uzb

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolarvelaruvularglottal
stoppʰ, btʰ, dkʰ, gq
trillr
fricativefs, zʃ, ʒɣʁ, χh
affricatetʃ, dʒ
nasalmnŋ
approximantw
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, yɨu
close-mide, øo
near-openæ
openɑ

Source: Boeschoten, Hendrik. 1998. Uzbek. The Turkic languages, ed. by Lars Johanson and Éva Ágnes Csató, 357–378.

Comments: /ts ɕː/ are found in Russian loans.

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