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Budukh

Phylum: Nakh-Daghestanian

Genus: Lezgic

Lat/lon: 41.182856, 48.370708

ISO code: bdk

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolarvelaruvularpharyngealglottal
stopb, pʰ, pʼd, tʰ, tʼg, kʰ, kʼqʔ
trillr
fricativev, fz, sʒ, ʃɣ, xʁ, χʕ, ħh
affricatetsʼdʒ, tʃʰ, tʃʼɢʁ, qχʰ, qχʼ
nasalmn
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontback
closei, yɯ, u
open-midɛ, œɔ
near-openæ
openɑ

Source: Талибов Б.Б. Будухский язык. Москва: Academia, 2007.

Comments: /ts/ is found only in Russian borrowings. Uvular affricates are described as stops ‘following the Caucasological tradition’. Of four uvular plosives mentioned on p. 27, only three made it to the table on p. 35: /q/ is not mentioned there. Also out of three palato-alveolar affricates mentioned on p. 29, only two are mentioned in the table: /dʒ/ was left out.

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