EURPhon: Tatar (Standard)

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Qypchaq

Lat/lon: 55.79, 49.13

ISO code: tat

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	uvular	glottal
stop	p, b		t̪, d̪					k, g	q	ʔ
trill				r
fricative	β	v, f	s̪, z̪		ʃ, ʒ	ɕ, ʑ			χ, ʁ	h
affricate				ts		tɕ
nasal	m		n̪					ŋ
approximant							j
lateral approximant				l

Long series

	alveolo-palatal
fricative	ɕː

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close		ʉ, ɨ	u
close-mid		ɘ̆, ɵ̆	ɤ̞̆, ŏ
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		a, ä	ɒ

Diphthongs

/iɪ̯/, /ɯɪ̯/

Licit initial clusters

∅

Licit finals

Lp, Lt̪, Lɕ, Lk, Lq, Np, Nt̪, Nɕ, Nk, Nq

Licit syllabic templates

CV(C)(C)

Source: Comrie, Bernard. 1997. Tatar (Volga Tatar, Kazan Tatar) phonology. Kaye, Alan S., and Peter T. Daniels (eds.) Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus). Vol. 1, 899–911. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns

Comments: Palatalized consonants occur marginally in Russian borrowings, they are not listed above. /v/, /f/, /ts/, /tɕ/, /ɕː/, /ɨ/, /ɛ/, /ɔ/, /ä/ do not occur in native words.